The format of the show consists of a celebrity paired with a professional dancer, each couple performs predetermined dances and competes against the others for judges' points and audience votes. The couple receiving the lowest combined total of judges' points and audience votes is eliminated each week until only the champion dance pair remains.

Couples

A total of 286 celebrities have appeared in the 25 seasons of the series, for each season, the celebrities are paired with a professional partner who instructs them in the various dances each week and competes alongside them in the televised competition. A total of 44 professional partners have appeared alongside celebrities, some for only one season (mostly in the earliest seasons).[citation needed]

For 17 seasons, the Harold Wheeler orchestra and singers provided the live music for the show, on Feb 7, 2014, it was announced that the new bandleader is Ray Chew. Along with him is a new band of instrumentalists and singers.[16]

* Youngest male winner at age 23; youngest female winner at age 16
‡ Oldest male winner at age 52; oldest female winner at age 50

Scoring and voting procedure

In seasons 1 and 2, only the overall ranking between competitors by the judges and the public was relevant; in season 3 and all subsequent seasons, the scoring system has made the exact scores relevant as well.

The scoring begins with the judges' marks, each judge gives a numeric score from 1 to 10, for a total score of 3 to 30. The scoring was altered for the "all-star" season 15, during which judges could give scores at 1/2-point intervals from 0.5 to 10, for a total score of 1.5 to 30. When multiple performances are scored, only the cumulative total counts, the contestants' judges' shares are calculated as the % of the total number of points awarded to all contestants that evening. (For example, if a team earned 20 pts on a night when the judges awarded 200 pts, their judges' share would be 20/200 = 10%.) This % is then added to the % of North American votes received by each contestant. The bottom 2 couples are identified at the end of the show, and the couple with the lowest combined total gets eliminated.[17] Season 8 added an occasional 'dance-off', in which contestants could re-do 1 of their dances, in an effort to improve their judges' score, this was later discontinued.

Public voting is conducted via a toll-free number, the ABC website, and, most recently, text messages and Facebook; contestants can vote during and immediately after each performance show. The maximum number of votes per voter per medium is equal to the number of couples performing that night, or 5 votes, whichever is larger; in April 2010, it was revealed that former contestant Kate Gosselin had e-mailed friends and family asking them to vote as many as 10x each.[18] In Nov 2010, the Washington Post reported that online voting appeared not to require a valid email address, and accordingly that numerous votes apparently could be cast by 1 person.[19]

In several cases where ESPN coverage of Monday Night Football airs instead on an ABC affiliate in an NFL team's home market, the program is delayed to air immediately after that station's local news, and a voting window confined only to the area codes of the pre-empted market is opened up to allow affected viewers to still put their votes in for the competition, though this is on a market-by-market basis (in some markets, an alternate sister station or digital subchannel carries the program live as scheduled).

Seasons 1 and 3 featured only 2 celebrities in the final week instead of 3. Starting with season 16, 4 celebrities made it into the final week, although the top 3 finalists proceeded to dance 1 more time for the judges after the 4th place couple was announced; in season 20, there were 3 celebrities in the final week, but in seasons 21, 23 and 25, there were 4. In seasons 22 and 24, there were only 3 celebrities in the final week.

General information

Payment

On the April 18, 2006 episode of the Howard SternRadio Show, Stern's wife Beth said that she was guaranteed to earn $125,000 for just appearing on DWTS (in season 3) and could earn up to more than double the original sum, depending on how long she lasted on the program.[20][21]

In season 21, Bindi Irwin had her payments withheld by a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge because she was a minor, which therefore required her parents to sign-off on the contract.[22] But although her mother signed, the contract lacked her father's signature, so the judge refused to validate the contract, despite Irwin's father being the world-famous naturalist Steve Irwin, whose death in 2006 had been widely covered in the news/media, the judge later validated the contract once Steve Irwin's death certificate was presented to the court, resulting in Bindi receiving a $350,000 paycheck from the show.[23]

Withdrawals

The first person to withdraw from competition was Romeo in season 2,[24] his father, Master P, took his place in the competition before the beginning of broadcasts, being partnered with Ashly DelGrosso. However, Romeo later competed in season 12[25] and finished in 5th place, he was partnered with Chelsie Hightower.

On week six in season three, Sara Evans cited her divorce as the reason for leaving the competition. No one was eliminated that week.

Another withdrawal occurred during the run-up to season four on February 28, when Vincent Pastore withdrew from the competition after only one week of training. Pastore said he did not realize how much work was needed during a ten-week period, and that he was not up to the physical demands of the show, he was replaced on March 2 by Pixar voice actor John Ratzenberger who was partnered with Edyta Sliwinska.[26]

In season seven, Misty May-Treanor withdrew from the competition in week three, after rupturing her Achilles tendon when rehearsing her jive with her partner, Maksim Chmerkovskiy. She did not perform the routine at all nor was she scored for it; no one else was eliminated that week.

Tom DeLay, in season nine, withdrew in week three of competition due to a full stress fracture that had developed in both feet from an earlier pre-stress fracture in one foot. DeLay was declared safe before he announced his withdrawal during the October 6, 2009 results show. Debi Mazar was still eliminated that night despite DeLay's departure.

In season sixteen, Olympic figure skating champion Dorothy Hamill had to withdraw from the competition due to doctor's orders for a spinal injury. A cyst had developed near her lower spine, and was pinching off the nerve in that area. Either boxing champion Victor Ortiz or reality TV star Lisa Vanderpump would've been eliminated, but Hamill withdrew before the results could be announced, meaning that no one was eliminated that week.

In season twenty-one, week three, reality TV star Kim Zolciak-Biermann was forced to withdraw from the competition after suffering a blood clot which resulted in a mini stroke (which resulted in no elimination that week). Tamar Braxton also withdrew from the season due to blood clots in her lungs making it the first season to have two withdrawals in it.

Macy's Stars of Dance: Design a Dance

Beginning season 7, viewers had the opportunity to vote for their favorite pros (or in some cases former contestants) to dance to a style of dance as well as a song to dance to. An online contest is also usually held so viewers can submit drawings of outfits for the performance.

The judges also presented a countdown of their choices for the top 10 perfect-scoring dances of the 1st 5 seasons, their choices were:

No.

Celebrity

Professional

Season

Week

Dance

Place

1

Mario Lopez

Karina Smirnoff

3

9

Tango

2nd

2

Mel B

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

5

7

Paso doble

2nd

3

Stacy Keibler

Tony Dovolani

2

8

Samba

3rd

4

Drew Lachey

Cheryl Burke

2

8

Freestyle

1st

5

Helio Castroneves

Julianne Hough

5

8

Quickstep

1st

6

Joey Fatone

Kym Johnson

4

7

Jive

2nd

7

Apolo Anton Ohno

Julianne Hough

4

9

Quickstep

1st

8

Emmitt Smith

Cheryl Burke

3

9

Cha-cha-cha

1st

9

Sabrina Bryan

Mark Ballas

5

4

Paso doble

7th

10

Kelly Monaco

Alec Mazo

1

6

Freestyle

1st

200th episode

In season 11, viewers were allowed 2 votes per day on the DWTS website to vote for their favorite out of 30 given choices, on Oct 25, 2010, a countdown of the Top 10 voted for dances on the show was reported to celebrate the following week when the 200th show would be.

No.

Celebrity

Professional

Season

Week

Dance

Place

1

Drew Lachey

Cheryl Burke

2

8

Freestyle

1st

2

Gilles Marini

Cheryl Burke

8

4

Argentine tango

2nd

3

Apolo Anton Ohno

Julianne Hough

4

5

Samba

1st

4

Nicole Scherzinger

Derek Hough

10

8

1950's Paso doble

1st

5

Mel B

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

5

7

Paso doble

2nd

6

Joanna Krupa

Derek Hough

9

8

Futuristic Paso doble

4th

7

Apolo Anton Ohno

Julianne Hough

4

10

Freestyle

1st

8

Helio Castroneves

Julianne Hough

5

8

Quickstep

1st

9

Donny Osmond

Kym Johnson

9

5

Argentine tango

1st

10

Shawn Johnson

Mark Ballas

8

11

Freestyle

1st

On the actual 200th show, several dances were performed again on the show and 6 of the past fan favorites came back to judge; Helio Castroneves, Emmitt Smith, Drew Lachey, Kelly Osbourne, Gilles Marini, Mel B, and more. The couples re-created their most memorable routines on the 200th episode; Kristi Yamaguchi and Apolo Ohno served as team captains for the team dances. Yamaguchi's team consisted of Rick & Cheryl, Kyle & Lacey and Bristol & Mark, while Brandy & Maksim, Jennifer & Derek and Kurt & Anna were on Ohno's team. On the results show of November 2, some awards were given out to past celebrity contestants and professionals.

Category

Winner

Most Dramatic Moment

Marie Osmond

Worst Dancer

Kenny Mayne

Biggest Dancer Transformation

Louis van Amstel

300th episode

The 300th episode took place on the week 9 results show of season 16.[31] 22 past and present pros performed an opening number choreographed by Jason Gilkinson. Past pros who performed were Chelsie Hightower, Dmitry Chaplin, Louis Van Amstel, and Anna Trebunskaya.[32]Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough danced their "Argentine tango" as the week's encore. However, the top 10 dances were not revealed, nor were the achievements.

400th episode

The 400th episode took place on the season premiere of the twenty-fourth season. Tom Bergeron did mention so; however, no special dances took place.[33]

10th Anniversary Special

On April 28, 2015, during season 20, a special pre-recorded episode aired as a 10th anniversary special with many former stars and professional dancers returning to the ballroom. Many past stars performed and reflected on their time on the show. Patti LaBelle, Amber Riley, and Lil' Kim performed LaBelle's "Lady Marmalade". The show closed with the largest number of people dancing in the show's history as stars, pros, hosts, and judges were all out on the dance floor.

Tributes

In seasons 9 and 10, three tribute performances were done to honor the memory of artists and others, the first was a tribute to recently deceased actor Patrick Swayze, on Sep 23, 2009. "She's Like the Wind" from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack (originally written by Swayze for Dirty Dancing), "Unchained Melody" from his film Ghost, and "(I've had) the Time of my Life" from Dirty Dancing were performed by select professional dancers of the show.

On Oct 20, 2009, a tribute was done for singer and dancer, Michael Jackson. "I Want You Back", "Man in the Mirror", and "Thriller" were performed—the first two songs by select professional dancers of the show, and all coming together for "Thriller".

In season 10, professional Haitian dancers performed as a tribute to victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on March 30, 2010. One of the male dancers, Emmanuel Pierre-Antoine, had lost his son in the rubble, they were dancing to "Dance Like This" by Wyclef Jean.

In season 24, to honor the passing of season 11 contestant Florence Henderson on November 24, 2016, a special tribute to Henderson was displayed on the dance floor, the season 24 premiere aired on March 20, 2017.

Records

Average

This is a list of the celebrities with the highest averages. All averages above 27 out of a possible 30 are shown here. (Averages out of 40 were rounded to be out of 30)

3rd Place
Champion
Runner-up
Runner-up
3rd Place
Champion
4th Place
5th Place
3rd Place
4th Place
6th Place
4th Place
5th Place
3rd Place
3rd Place
4th Place
4th Place
5th Place
Champion
4th Place
3rd Place

A second DVD Dancing with the Stars: Latin Cardio Dance was released on September 13, 2008 featuring Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Cheryl Burke. The program contains cardiovascular workouts adapted from cha-cha, Merengue, samba and mambo dance routines.[34]

Companion book

A companion book written by Guy Phillips was released in the early fall of 2007. Titled Dancing with the Stars: Jive, Samba and Tango Your Way Into The Best Shape Of Your Life, the book includes fitness routines modeled by Alec Mazo and Edyta Sliwinska, as well as original costume designs, lists of performed songs during a dance, and a complete list of song-and-dance routine performed since the first season of the show.[citation needed]

On May 16, 2017, a Dancing with the Stars Junior spin-off was announced, the dance competition spin-off was originally set to premiere in the spring of 2018 on ABC, and the format of the show will feature celebrity children and the children of celebrities paired with professional junior ballroom dancers.[36] In January 2018, ABC stated that Dancing with the Stars Junior is still in the works, but it didn't develop as quickly they hoped it would. So instead, the all-athletes edition will air in its place, with Dancing with the Stars Junior slated to air in summer 2018.

On November 21, 2017, ABC announced a special 4-week all-athletes edition of Dancing with the Stars, set to premiere in the spring of 2018 on ABC, and is set to be considered more of a mini-season/spin-off than a regular season, the format will feature 10 athletes from all corners of the sports world paired with the show's professional ballroom dancers for a chance at the Mirrorball. Bergeron and Andrews will return as hosts, with Bergeron confirming on Twitter that the athletes edition will start airing in late April, on January 8, 2018, ABC announced that the all-athletes edition would premiere on April 30, 2018.

Tours

An unofficial live tour show called Dancing Pros: Live! toured with several Dancing pros[37] since 2010.[38] A Dancing with the Stars: Live! official tour was announced on November 3, 2014 for the 2014-2015 season starting on December 27, 2014 in Niagara Falls, New York and ending February 15, 2015 hitting 33 cities.[39] A second tour, “Dancing with the Stars Live! : Dance All Night” was announced. A third tour, Dancing with the Stars: Live! - We Came to Dance, was announced on October 3, 2016 for 43 cities from December 16, 2016 to February 14, 2017.[40] A fourth tour, Dancing with the Stars: Light Up the Night, was announced in October 2017 and began on December 30, 2017 in Charlotte, North Carolina, performing 71 shows and ending in Los Angeles. [41]

Reception

In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows with the most Facebook Likes found that "unlike So You Think You Can Dance, which is generally more of a city show, Dancing with the Stars is most popular in the countryside. It also has a higher share of 'likes' from viewers aged 65 and up than any other show.[42]

1.
Reality television
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It differs from documentary television in that the focus tends to be on drama, personal conflict, and entertainment rather than educating viewers. The genre has various standard tropes, including confessionals used by cast members to express their thoughts, an early example of the genre was the 1991 Dutch series Nummer 28, which was the first show to bring together strangers and record their interactions. It then exploded as a phenomenon in the late 1990s and early 2000s with the success of the series Survivor, Idols. These shows and a number of others became global franchises, spawning local versions in dozens of countries, Reality television as a whole has become a fixture of television programming. There are grey areas around what is classified as reality television, Reality television has faced significant criticism since its rise in popularity. Much of the criticism has centered on the use of the word reality, Television formats portraying ordinary people in unscripted situations are almost as old as the television medium itself. Precedents for television that portrayed people in unscripted situations began in the late 1940s, queen for a Day was an early example of reality-based television. The 1946 television game show Cash and Carry sometimes featured contestants performing stunts, debuting in 1948, Allen Funts hidden camera show Candid Camera broadcast unsuspecting ordinary people reacting to pranks. In 1948, talent search shows Ted Macks Original Amateur Hour and Arthur Godfreys Talent Scouts featured amateur competitors, in the 1950s, game shows Beat the Clock and Truth or Consequences involved contestants in wacky competitions, stunts, and practical jokes. Confession was a show which aired from June 1958 to January 1959. The radio series Nightwatch tape-recorded the daily activities of Culver City, the series You Asked for It incorporated audience involvement by basing episodes around requests sent in by postcard from viewers. First broadcast in the United Kingdom in 1964, the Granada Television documentary Seven Up, broadcast interviews with a dozen ordinary 7-year-olds from a broad cross-section of society and inquired about their reactions to everyday life. Every seven years, a film documented the life of the same individuals during the period, titled the Up Series, episodes include 7 Plus Seven,21 Up. The program was structured as a series of interviews with no element of plot, however, it did have the then-new effect of turning ordinary people into celebrities. The first reality show in the modern sense may have been the series The American Sportsman, Another precursor may be considered Mutual of Omahas Wild Kingdom which aired from 1963 through 1988. This show featured zoologist Marlin Perkins traveling across the globe and illustrating the variety of animal life on the planet. Though mostly a travelogue, it was popular in syndication and new episodes were produced through the eighties. The 12-part 1973 PBS series An American Family showed a nuclear family going through a divorce, unlike many later reality shows, it was more or less documentary in purpose and style

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Strictly Come Dancing
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Each couple is scored out of 10 by a panel of judges. The title of the show suggests a continuation of the long-running series Come Dancing, the format has been exported to over 40 other countries, and has also inspired a modern dance-themed spin-off Strictly Dance Fever. The show is presented by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman. The thirteenth series ended on 19 December 2015, a further eleven stand-alone Christmas specials have also been produced, in consecutive years from 2004 onwards. Nine charity specials have also produced since 2008. Since the fourth series, the show has also aired in high definition on BBC HD. He stepped down permanently in 2014, the first year of broadcast 2004 there were 2 Series while all the other years there was only one series. Producer Richard Hopkins, who had produced the first UK series of Big Brother, later, entertainment executive Fenia Vardanis also suggested reviving Come Dancing, so Jane Lush, the then head of BBC Entertainment, put Hopkins and Vardanis together to develop the show. Hopkins then called in Karen Smith, who had just produced Comic Relief Does Fame Academy for BBC One and The Games for Channel 4, to lead the development of the show. Smith was the show running Executive Producer of the first three series, and of sister show It Takes Two and she then took the role of Creative Director of BBC Entertainment whilst still overseeing series 4 and 5. Hopkins later took the format to America himself when the BBC dismissed the idea of selling it abroad, from series 1 to 11, Sir Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly presented the pro-celebrity ballroom dancing competition. Winkleman has joined Daly as full-time co-presenter for series 12 following Forsyths departure after the 2013 series, through telephone voting, viewers vote for who they would like to be in the next round, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the judges. For example, with ten contestants left, the judges favourite would receive ten points, second favourite nine points, and so on, the bottom ranked couple gets one point. The profits from the lines were donated to Sport Relief in series 1. The show is broadcast live on BBC One on Saturday evenings, Sir Bruce Forsyth presented the live shows alongside Daly from 2004 to 2013, announcing his departure in 2014. He was to continue to present special editions of the show, the judging panel initially consisted of Bruno Tonioli, Arlene Phillips, Len Goodman and Craig Revel Horwood. Tonioli commutes weekly between Hollywood and London to judge both the American and British versions of the show simultaneously, each judge gives the performance a mark out of ten, giving an overall total out of forty. The voice-over announcer is Alan Dedicoat, the singers on the show are Tommy Blaize, Hayley Sanderson, Lance Ellington, Andrea Grant and formerly the well known UK dance music vocalist Tara McDonald

3.
Tom Bergeron
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Thomas Tom Bergeron is an American television personality, comedian, and game show host. He is best known as the host of the 21 Day Fix infomercial, Americas Funniest Home Videos and he has also hosted Hollywood Squares, and a fill-in host for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. He is the winner of both a Daytime Emmy Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award, Bergeron was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, the son of Kay and Ray Bergeron. He is of French-Canadian and Irish descent and his first job in broadcasting was as a disc jockey at local radio station WHAV, in his home town of Haverhill, Massachusetts. He became a popular radio DJ in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire in the early 1980s on Portsmouths WHEB and his popularity led to additional TV and radio auditions. One of his first jobs on television was as host of a game show, Granite State Challenge. He moved to the Boston market in February 1982, joining WBZ-TV as a general on-air personality, in 1984, he landed the hosting spot on Lottery Live, the nightly drawings of the Massachusetts State Lottery games. By January 1987, while working in these roles, Bergeron added People Are Talking to his duties. He replaced outgoing host Buzz Luttrell on the afternoon talk show. While Ron Cantera took over as host of 4 Today, Bergeron remained lottery host until drawings moved to WNEV-TV in September 1987, Bergeron additionally served as the original host of WBZs weekend morning teenage discussion series Rap-Around from 1987 to 1989. By the early 1990s, Bergeron was seen as a figure in Boston television. It was there he had a radio show called The Tom Bergeron Show. When People Are Talking ended a successful 13-year run in June 1993, Bergeron remained on WBZ-TV as commentator and lifestyle reporter for the stations expanded hour-long noon newscast. In early 1994, Bergeron briefly surfaced as a morning host on Bostons soft-rock station WMJX, in June 1994, Bergeron left WBZ when he was hired by the new FX cable network. He had been selected to co-host a morning show for them, called Breakfast Time. Hosting with Laurie Hibberd, the show became successful on the upstart cable network. In September 1996, the moved to Fox and became Fox After Breakfast. Bergeron and Hibberd continued with the show for one year on Fox, the show was renewed in 1997, with new host Vicki Lawrence, a new set and modified format, it became The Vicki Lawrence Show

4.
Erin Andrews
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Erin Jill Andrews is an American sportscaster and television personality. She hosts Dancing with the Stars for ABC and is a reporter for Fox NFL. Andrews was previously a co-host of College GameDay on ESPN and a contributor for Good Morning America on the ABC network and she also has an on-air presence at many major sporting events, including the Super Bowl and the World Series. Andrews was born in Lewiston, Maine, to Paula Andrews, a teacher, and Steven Andrews, Andrews describes herself as a tomboy as a youth, living a life that always revolved around sports, watching NBA games with her father growing up, particularly Boston Celtics games. Andrews cited Hannah Storm, Melissa Stark, Lesley Visser, Andrews attended Bloomingdale High School in Valrico, Florida, where she was a member of the dance team, student government, and the National Honor Society. Also while growing up, she attended Brandon School of Dance Arts in Seffner, Florida. In high school, Andrews claimed that, as a tomboy, she did not have a lot of friends, opting to hang out with the boys. Following graduation from school in 1996, Andrews attended the University of Florida. While in college, she was a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority, and she has a younger sister, Kendra Andrews, who is a professional dancer and actress. In 2000, Andrews was employed by Fox Sports Florida as a freelance reporter, from 2001 to 2002, she served as a Tampa Bay Lightning reporter for the Sunshine Network. From 2002 to 2004, Andrews covered the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Thrashers, Andrews began working for ESPN in April 2004 as a reporter for ESPN National Hockey Night. She has also reported for the College World Series, Little League World Series, in 2010, Andrews appeared on the tenth season of ABCs Dancing with the Stars, partnered with Maksim Chmerkovskiy. They placed third out of 11 couples, on January 13,2011, it was announced that Andrews signed an endorsement deal with Reebok to promote its ZigTech brand. Due to the conflict of interest, ESPN announced revised endorsement guidelines for its journalists that required Andrews to end her endorsement deal with Reebok by the end of 2011, on June 29,2012, it was announced that Andrews was leaving ESPN to join Fox Sports. She was the first host of Fox College Footballs studio show with Eddie George, Andrews would also contribute to daily studio show Fox Football Daily. On February 23,2014, it was announced that Andrews would replace Brooke Burke-Charvet as the co-host of Dancing with the Stars beginning with its 18th season in March 2014. On July 14,2014, it was announced that Andrews would be replacing Pam Oliver as the reporter on Foxs lead NFL broadcasting crew. Andrews became a spokesperson for the Kraft Foods Huddle to Fight Hunger campaign in 2010, in October 2011, Erin Andrews teamed up with StubHub, the world’s largest online ticket marketplace, to launch a new national campaign called Girls Night Out

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Brooke Burke
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Brooke Burke-Charvet, better known by her maiden name, Brooke Burke, is an American actress, dancer, model, and television personality. She is known for Rock Star, winning the season of Dancing with the Stars. Brooke Lisa Burke was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Tucson, Arizona and her mother is of Portuguese background but was adopted and raised Jewish. Her father is of French and Irish descent and left the family when she was 2 and she was thereafter raised by her Armenian stepfather in her mothers Jewish religion, and is raising her children Jewish although she also celebrates Christmas. She attended both Sahuaro High School and Palo Verde High School in Tucson where she was homecoming queen in 1989, burkes initial claim to fame was her hosting of Wild On. on the E. network from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, Burke competed in the TV show host edition of The Weakest Link and was voted off in the second round. In 2005 and 2006, she hosted the CBS summer reality show, Rock Star, Burke, with Derek Hough as her partner, won season 7 of Dancing with the Stars. She later replaced Samantha Harris as co-host of the program and she began hosting season 10 of Dancing with the Stars alongside Tom Bergeron. On February 22,2014, it was announced that she would not return to the show for its 18th season, in 2009, she hosted NBCs pre-show for the 66th Annual Golden Globe Awards with Tiki Barber and Nancy ODell. In August 2010, she hosted the season of the TV Land series Shes Got the Look. She co-hosted the 2011,2012, and 2013 Miss America pageants with Chris Harrison and she once again served as the co-host of Miss America for its 2016 pageant. Burke-Charvet was a participant on The New Celebrity Apprentice but eliminated after 12th tasks, on November 25,2008, Brooke Burke & her partner Derek Hough won the competition, beating Super Bowl Champion Warren Sapp & his partner Kym Johnson. She is tied with Kristi Yamaguchi and Nicole Scherzinger for the most weeks at the top of the leaderboard with 8 out of 10 weeks, Brooke Burke has appeared in mens magazines such as Maxim, Stuff, Playboy, and FHM. In 2007, she was listed as one of Blenders hottest women of film, in 2007, Burke started a company, Baboosh Baby, which offers wraps for pregnant women. The companys website features a blog from Burke about her children, burkes first book, The Naked Mom, A Modern Moms Fearless Revelations, Savvy Advice, and Soulful Reflections, was published February 1,2011, by New American Library. It features her reflections on motherhood, Hollywood, romance, and she was the voice and face of Rachel Teller in Electronic Arts video game Need for Speed, Underground 2, and asks the People and Places questions in the video game Trivial Pursuit Unhinged. Burke starred as a character in the Burger King advergaming title PocketBike Racer. Burke has fronted infomercials promoting a Swiss ball video home fitness workout named Gunnar Petersons Core Secrets, the infomercials have screened in New Zealand and Australia

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Samantha Harris
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Samantha Harris is an American television hostess. Most notably, she was the co-host of seasons two through nine of Dancing with the Stars with Tom Bergeron, from 2010–12, she was a correspondent at Entertainment Tonight. In September 2015, she returned to the program as a co-anchor for the weekend edition, Harris was born in Hopkins, Minnesota to Richard, a rock n roll promoter, and Bonnie Shapiro, a dancer. In 1982, her parents founded a festival, known as King Richards Faire. On December 16,2008, Harris joined The Insider as a substitute host and she had previously been a correspondent with E. Entertainment Televisions E. News, and host of THS Investigates, in addition to writing, producing and reporting daily for E. News, she co-hosted the networks live award-show coverage for the Oscars, Golden Globes and Emmys. She has also appeared as a correspondent on Good Morning America. Prior to joining E. Harris served as a weekend co-host for the infotainment show Extra and her best known hosting job was for Dancing with the Stars along with Tom Bergeron. She took over in 2006 for Lisa Canning and her other hosting credits include Foxs The Next Joe Millionaire and AMC Access. Additionally, she served as a guest co-host on The View. She hosted a week of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire shows on May 11–15,2009, Harris announced on January 28,2010 that she would leave Dancing with the Stars to focus on other projects like her correspondent duties at The Insider and Entertainment Tonight. Season 7 champion Brooke Burke replaced Harris as co-host in the spring 2010 season, Burke was later replaced in 2014 by Erin Andrews. Her film and television credits include D3, The Mighty Ducks, Surviving Gilligans Island, Reefer Madness, Beautiful, CSI, Crime Scene Investigation and she made her Broadway debut in 2009 as Roxie Hart in Chicago. She performed a six-week engagement in the musical from July 7 through August 16 at the Ambassador Theatre. After her Broadway run, Harris played Roxie in the Greenville, SC, engagement of the tour, August 18–23. Harris has been a cover girl model for Muscle & Fitness, HERS, and for FHM, SELF and SHAPE magazines. She was featured in the December 2006 issue of FHM magazine, in November 2007, Harris was announced as the spokesperson for Palmers Cocoa Butter Formula line, where she was featured in a national print and television campaign. That occurred as Harris won consecutive 2007 and 2008 Crown Awards for the Best Hairstyle on Television from voters at Super-Hair. Net, Harris married Michael Hess in 2005

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Len Goodman
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Leonard Gordon Len Goodman is an English professional ballroom dancer, dance judge, and coach. He appears on television programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing and Dancing with the Stars. He also runs a dance school in Dartford, Kent. Goodman was born in Bethnal Green, London and his birth was registered in Bromley, Kent, the son of Leonard Gordon Goodman, an electrician, and Louisa Adelaide. One of his maternal great-great-grandfathers was a Polish immigrant, Goodman moved to Blackfen when he was six years old and attended Westwood Secondary Modern School where he was a member of the cricket team. Goodman started dancing at the age of 19, after a time as an apprentice welder for Harland. Goodman turned professional, won various competitions, and retired from dancing after winning the British Championships at Blackpool in his late twenties, however, in July 2016, Goodman announced he would be leaving the show at the end of that years series. His final appearance was on the Christmas Day Special and he left the show for season 21, but returned the following season. From 30 March to 9 April 2012, Goodman hosted a three-part BBC One documentary that was broadcast in the United States by PBS for the 100th anniversary of the voyage and it capitalised on his experience as a welder at Harland and Wolff. Goodman interviewed descendants of survivors and introduced viewers to memorials and significant sites in the United Kingdom, in 2013, Goodman presented the BBC Four programme Len Goodmans Dance Band Days. He also hosted Len Goodmans Perfect Christmas on Boxing Day on BBC One, in August 2014, Goodman was one of a number of well known faces taking part in ITVs two-part documentary series Secrets from the Clink. In November and December 2013, Goodman and Lucy Worsley presented the BBC Four three-part show Dancing Cheek to Cheek, in October 2014, Goodman hosted BBC One show Holiday of My Lifetime. In 2017, Goodman will present a game show called Partners In Rhyme, based on Matt Edmondsons game. In 2013,2014, and again in 2016, Goodman presented a Sunday evening music show on BBC Radio 2 during Paul OGradys weeks off, Goodman played music that he grew up with, mostly of an easy nature together with spoken memories of his young life and family. In 2006 he appeared in an all singing/dancing version of the Weakest Link, things rolled along pretty nicely for a year until out of the blue Lesley dropped a bombshell. Goodman was 36 at this time, Lesley, he wrote, was the ex-wife of a bloke called Wilf Pine who had managed Black Sabbath. Lesley and Wilf got married in Connecticut, Goodman and Lesleys son, James William Goodman was born 26 January 1981, but at age 12 moved with his mother back to her native Isle of Wight after Lesley and Goodman broke up. As of 2012, James teaches Latin and ballroom dancing at his fathers Goodman Dance Centre, on 30 December 2012, Goodman married his companion of over ten years, Sue Barrett, a 47-year-old dance teacher, in a small ceremony at a London dining club Mosimanns

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Carrie Ann Inaba
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Carrie-Ann Inaba is an American dancer, choreographer, television dance competition judge, actress, game show host, and singer. She is best known for her work on ABC TVs Dancing with the Stars and she has appeared as one of three, later four judges on the Dancing with the Stars. Inaba was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, graduating from Punahou School in 1986 and she is of Pinay, Boricua, Irish, Chinese, and Japanese descent. She attended Sophia University and University of California, Irvine before graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B. A. degree in world arts, Inaba, who speaks Japanese, lived in Tokyo from 1986 to 1988 and was a popular singer. She released three singles, Party Girl, Be Your Girl, and Yume no Senaka and hosted weekly radio, after returning to America, Inaba appeared as one of the Fly Girls, a group of backup dancers on the television series In Living Color from 1990 to 1992. She also performed with Canadian singer Norman Iceberg and dancers Viktor Manoel, Inaba appeared as a dancer during Madonnas 1993 Girlie Show World Tour. Inaba appeared in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember as Fook Yu, alongside Diane Mizota, the two women are not related, but when Mizota had been cast for her role, she was asked if she knew any actresses who resembled her and suggested Inaba. Inaba, who had appeared briefly in Austin Powers, The Spy Who Shagged Me, was given the role, Inaba and Mizota would later reprise their roles with Mike Myers in a commercial for Motorola. Inaba has acted in the movies Monster Mash, The Movie, Lord of Illusions, Showgirls, Boys and Girls, Flintstones II, Freak and American Virgin and the television series Jack & Jill and Nikki. Inaba has appeared on The View, the ABC talent competition Dance War, Bruno vs. Carrie Ann, Inaba guest starred as Tina, Hannahs choreographer, in the Hannah Montana episode, Papas Got A Brand New Friend. TV Guide Network announced that it had signed Inaba to anchor its live red carpet coverage, in October 2010, Inaba was named host of the revival of the game show 1 vs.100 on GSN. After the first season, Inaba announced she would not return to host the show and she also choreographed the Miss America Pageant for five years. She appeared in the first season of So You Think You Can Dance during the stages where she provided choreography for the choreography round. Inaba served as a judge at the 2009 USA Dance National DanceSport Championships. Inaba is the founder and President of EnterMediArts, Inc. a video production company and she directs, writes, and edits films. Behind The Scenes Miss America Special, 7th Festival of the Pacific Arts, A Portrait of IVI and Beyond the Dancing Image, along with the feature film. On December 14,2016, Inaba announced that she and actor Robb Derringer became engaged, Derringer popped the question on a romantic, secluded beach on the California coastline, which was the site of their first date. On the March 31,2011, episode of Live with Regis and Kelly, the lights dimmed just before Inabas boyfriend, Jesse Sloan, appeared on stage

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Julianne Hough
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Julianne Alexandra Hough is an American dancer, singer, and actress. She is a professional champion of ABCs Dancing with the Stars. She was nominated for a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy in 2007 for Outstanding Choreography in season five of the show and her first leading acting role was in the 2011 film remake of Footloose. In September 2014, Hough joined Dancing with the Stars as a permanent fourth judge, along with her brother Derek Hough and Tessandra Chavez, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography in 2015. In 2016, she played Sandy in the live Fox television production of Grease, Hough was born in Orem, Utah, the youngest of five children in a Latter-day Saint family. Her parents are Marianne and Bruce Hough, who was chairman of the Utah Republican Party. Her brother, Derek Hough, is also a professional dancer and she also has three older sisters, Sharee, Marabeth, and Katherine. All four of Houghs grandparents were dancers and she is also a second cousin of musicians Riker, Rydel, Rocky and Ross Lynch from R5. Houghs formal training began at the Center Stage Performing Arts Studio in Orem, in 1999, when she was 10, her divorcing parents sent her and brother Derek to London to live and study with their coaches, Corky and Shirley Ballas. The Ballases helped tutor the two Hough children alongside their own son, Mark, following in Dereks footsteps, she joined him at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts when a slot opened up at that school. They received training in song, theatre, gymnastics and many forms of dance, including jazz, ballet, and tap. The three children formed their own pop music trio 2B1G when Hough was 12, performed at competitions in the UK. At 15, Julianne Hough became the youngest dancer, and only American, I was told if I ever went back to the United States, three things were going to happen. One, I was going to amount to nothing, two, I was going to work at Whataburger. And three, I was going to end up a slut, so, it was like, I cant go back. I have to be this person, after returning to the U. S. she attended the Las Vegas Academy and Alta High School. Hough was one of the Million Dollar Dancers in the 2006 ABC game show called Show Me the Money, on November 27,2007, Hough and her partner, three-time Indianapolis 500 champion Hélio Castroneves, became the winners of season five. Hough returned for six with radio host/comedian Adam Carolla

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CBS Television City
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CBS Television City, alternatively Television City, is a television studio complex located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of North Fairfax Avenue. Since 1961, it has served as the control facility for CBSs west coast television network operations, prior to that. The companys West Coast radio production center is located more than a mile away to the south, since its inauguration in 1952, numerous TV shows have been broadcast live or taped at Television City, including many shows not broadcast on CBS. Many films have also produced in part at Television City, such as the 1996 feature That Thing You Do. starring Tom Hanks. During the opening credits of many of the shows taped here, the complex currently houses a total of eight separate studios. Backstage tours infrequently take place, with the guests being escorted by a CBS page, CBS Television City opened on November 16,1952. It was built on the site of a football field and race track. Before the stadium, it was an oil field, Gilmore Stadium was part of a sports/entertainment complex that included Gilmore Field and the Pan Pacific Auditorium. By the late 1930s, the Gilmore company had both the football stadium and the baseball park. Gilmore sold the stadium to CBS in 1950, and that years Turkey Night Grand Prix midget race was the last race run on its track, two years later, CBS built Television City on the site. After the Hollywood Stars transferred out of the city in 1958, the ballpark was razed, the stark modern architecture at Television City consists of black and white planes meeting at razor-sharp corners, with accents of dazzling red, the work of Pereira & Luckman of Los Angeles. The studio facility was built to handle the production needs for the network. The buildings black and white color scheme was used to identify areas where it was designed to be expanded. Black walls and glass walls indicated temporary structure that could be removed during expansion, later, another renovation further added two more studios in what had been rehearsal halls in the original building. The original plans for Television City called for 24 soundstages, before CBS executives deciding to settle with just the initial four, Studio 43 was equipped with RCA TK-40A color cameras in 1954, with cables allowing any of the original four studios to use those cameras. In 1956, Studio 41 was equipped with RCA TK-41s, however, CBS color broadcasts decreased in frequency until the following decade, when the 1964 production of Rodgers and Hammersteins Cinderella was recorded. CBS programs were, in general, in black-and-white until Norelco PC-60s were installed starting in 1964, Studio 33 is the current home of the long-running CBS game show The Price Is Right and the HBO late-night series Real Time with Bill Maher. On April 9,1998, on the 5000th episode of The Price Is Right, CBS named Studio 33 as the Bob Barker Studio in honor of the longtime host

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BBC Worldwide
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BBC Worldwide Ltd. is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC, formed out of a restructuring of its predecessor BBC Enterprises in 1995. The company monetises BBC brands, selling BBC and other British programming for broadcast abroad with the aim of supplementing the income received by the BBC through the licence fee. In 2013/14, BBC Worldwide generated headline profits of £157. 4m and headline sales of £1,042. 3m, in 2012/13 it made a profit of £156. 3m on a turnover of £1,115. 8m. The company had made a profit of £104m on a turnover of £1, 085m in the previous financial year. BBC Worldwides profit rate was 11. 2% in 2011/2012, up slightly from 9. 6% the previous year, down from a peak of 21. 5% in 2002/2003, contrasting with 7. 8% in 2003/2004. The highest profile of these products was the listings magazine Radio Times. Prior to 1979, several BBC departments dealt with the exploitation and sale of BBC brands and this was rectified however as the economic situation eased and by 1982 BBC Publications had a trading profit of £4.7 million. BBC Transcription Services licensed BBC Radio material to overseas broadcasters, the selling of television programmes was at first handled in 1958 with the establishment of a business manager post. This gradually expanded until the establishment of the Television Promotions department in 1960 under a general manager, in its first year, the department saw the sale of 550 programmes overseas with a turnover of £234,000, with a further 1,200 programmes sold the following year. Radio programmes were only exploited on the level with the creation of the Radio Enterprises department in 1965. However, following the retirement of the Radio Enterprises general manager in 1969, in 1979 the department became BBC Enterprises Ltd. a subsidiary company wholly owned by the BBC. By 1982, the division were expanding with divisions responsible for video, recorded audio, film. At this point the company had a turnover of £23 million, on 1 April 1986, all commercial activities of the corporation, including BBC Publications, was merged into BBC Enterprises Ltd. In 1991 BBC World Service Television became the first commercially funded BBC broadcasting operation after the Foreign Office refused to pay for it, BBC Enterprises Ltd was subsequently reorganised in 1995 as BBC Worldwide Ltd. A review of the BBCs commercial activities took place in 2004 and concluded that the sell off of BBC Worldwides assets would not be as advantageous as keeping the business and driving it harder. Instead, some changes to its remit, focus, structure and governance were made, in 2007 BBC Worldwide purchased a 75% stake in the travel guide publisher Lonely Planet, acquiring the final 25% of the company in 2011. The acquisition was part of the BBCs strategy to grow its online portfolio and to increase its operations in Australia, in January 2009 it was announced that Ofcom had put forward the recommendation that Channel 4 merge with either the commercial network Five or BBC Worldwide. In the same year, the company was awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise in recognition of the companies growth, in 2012, the company began to reorganise their divisions from a product based system to a location-based system, resulting in Jana Bennett leaving the company

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Endemol Shine North America
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Endemol Shine North America is the American division of Endemol Shine Group that was founded on March 15,2012 as a merger of Shine Americas, Shine USA, and Reveille Productions. Endemol Shine North America produces and distributes scripted and unscripted television, youTube premium channels and other platforms, many of these with sponsors such as Walmart, Toyota, Kraft Foods, Subway and Microsoft. Through Endemol Shine Groups distribution arm, Endemol Shine International, Endemol Shine North America distributes to more than 150 countries, see Endemol USA Shine America began as Reveille Productions, an independently owned television and motion picture studio and production company based in Los Angeles. The studio was founded by Ben Silverman in March 2002, the name Reveille is based on the bugle call used to wake up military personnel, the company logo features a bugler in action. In 2007, Silverman accepted the job as the new entertainment head at NBC, however, because of the arrangement, he could not profit from any further projects associated with Reveille but continued to work on shows prior to his NBC deal. In February 2008, Elisabeth Murdochs Shine Group bought Reveille for $125 million, also the same year, ShineReveille International made a deal with Merv Griffin Entertainment to distribute all of MGE programming overseas. In March 2012, Reveille became known as Shine America

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate

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720p
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720p is a progressive HDTV signal format with 720 horizontal lines and an aspect ratio of 16,9, normally known as widescreen HDTV. The number 720 stands for the 720 horizontal scan lines of display resolution. The p stands for progressive scan, i. e. non-interlaced, when broadcast at 60 frames per second, 720p features the highest temporal resolution possible under the ATSC and DVB standards. The term assumes a widescreen ratio of 16,9. 720i is a term found in numerous sources and publications. Typically, it is an error in which the author is referring to the 720p HDTV format. However, in cases it is incorrectly presented as an actual alternative format to 720p. No proposed or existing broadcast standard permits 720 interlaced lines in a frame at any frame rate. Progressive scanning reduces the need to prevent flicker by anti-aliasing single high contrast horizontal lines and it is also easier to perform high-quality 50↔60 Hz conversion and slow-motion clips with progressive video. A 720p60 video has advantage over 480i and 1080i60 in that it reduces the number of 3,2 artifacts introduced during transfer from 24 frame/s film. However, 576i and 1080i50, which are common in Europe, generally do not suffer from pull down artifacts as film frames are simply played at 25 frames and the audio pitch corrected by 25/24ths. As a result, 720p60 is used for U. S. broadcasts while European HD broadcasts often use 1080i50 24* frame, arte, a dual-language French-German channel produced in collaboration by ARD, ZDF and France Télévisions, broadcasts in German at 720p50 but in French at 1080i50. EBU Technical paper on HDTV formats

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5.1 surround sound
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5.1 surround sound is the common name for six channel surround sound audio systems. 5.1 is the most commonly used layout in home cinema and it uses five full bandwidth channels and one low-frequency effects channel. Dolby Digital, Dolby Pro Logic II, DTS, SDDS,5.1 is also the standard surround sound audio component of digital broadcast and music. All 5.1 systems use the same channels and configuration, having a front left and right. A prototype for five-channel surround sound, then dubbed quintaphonic sound, was used in the 1975 film Tommy,5.1 dates back to 1976 when Dolby Labs modified the track usage of the six analogue magnetic soundtracks on Todd-AO70 mm film prints. The Dolby application of optical matrix encoding in 1976 did not use split surrounds, dolbys first use of split surrounds was with 70mm film, which received wide release in 1979 with Apocalypse Now. When digital sound was applied to 35 mm release prints, starting with Batman Returns in 1992, the ability to provide 5.1 sound had been one of the key reasons for using 70 mm for prestige screenings. The provision of 5.1 digital sound on 35 mm significantly reduced the use of the very expensive 70 mm format. Digital sound and the 5.1 format were introduced in 1990, by KODAK and Optical Radiation Corporation, with releases of Days of Thunder and The Doors using the CDS format. 5.1 digital surround in the forms of Dolby Digital AC3 and DTS, started appearing on several mid 90s Laserdisc releases, with among the earliest being Clear and Present Danger and Jurassic Park. Many DVD releases have Dolby Digital tracks up to 5.1 channels, in addition, some DVDs have DTS tracks with most being 5.1 channel mixes. Blu-ray and Digital cinema both have eight-channel capability which can be used to provide either 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound,7.1 is an extension of 5.1 that uses four surround zones, two at the sides and two at the back. A system of digital 5.1 surround sound hsd also been used in 1987 at the Parisian cabaret the Moulin Rouge, created by French engineer Dominique Bertrand. To achieve such a system in 1985 a dedicated mixing console had to be designed in cooperation with Solid State Logic, based on their 5000 series, respectively, A left, B right, C centre, D left rear, E right rear, F bass. The same engineer had already developed a similar 3.1 system in 1973, the order of channels in a 5.1 file is different across file formats. The order in WAV files is Front Left, Front Right, Center, LFE, Surround Left, regarding music, the main goal of 5.1 surround sound is a proper localization and equability of all acoustic sources for a centered positioned audience. Therefore, ideally five matched speakers should be used, for play-back of 5. 5° for movies ±30° for music, surround ±110°7.1 surround sound Ambisonics Timeline of audio formats 5.1 surroud sound demo files

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Drew Lachey
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Andrew John Drew Lachey is an American singer and actor. He is known as a member of 98 Degrees, the winner of the season of Dancing with the Stars. Drew Lachey was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and he was a combat medic in the United States Army, was an Emergency medical technician in NYC, worked in a deli, and was a camp counselor at the age of 16. He attended the Clovernook Elementary School in North College Hill, Ohio then attended the School for Creative and Performing Arts in the Cincinnati, Ohio Public School District. He was a member of the pop group 98 Degrees, alongside his brother Nick Lachey, in June 2008, Lachey joined the Broadway company of Monty Pythons Spamalot as Patsy, the faithful manservant to King Arthur and stayed with the show for three months. Lachey was a celebrity dancer on the season of Dancing with the Stars with professional dance partner Cheryl Burke. At the beginning of the week of competition, Lachey. In the eighth and final week, they earned a score of 30 on each of their two dances, the Paso Doble and freestyle, giving them the highest score for the week, on February 26,2006, they were crowned the champions of Dancing with the Stars. Lachey co-hosted the 2006 Miss USA pageant with Access Hollywood star Nancy ODell, the pageant aired live on NBC from Baltimore, Maryland on April 21,2006. From December 2006 to February 2007, Drew toured both Canada and the United States for the Dancing with the Stars Tour, on the April 17,2007 results show, Lachey made a surprise appearance to reprise his Save a Horse freestyle dance with Cheryl Burke. He co-hosted the first 3 weeks of the season of Dancing with the Stars. He also stepped in for Tom for one episode. When Gloria Estefan had to pull out of the October 16,2007 results show for personal reasons, Lachey returned to dance a foxtrot with Cheryl. Drew was featured on the show Overhaulin when brother Nick Lachey worked with Chip Foose to steal, in 2010, he played the role of Corny Collins in a production of Hairspray at Pittsburghs Benedum Center. Lachey served as guest host for The Price Is Right Live. in Las Vegas in August 2010, Drew and design partner Sabrina Soto won the celebrity edition of HGTVs Showdown, Battle of the Bonus Room shown in July,2009. The team beat designer Matthew Finlason and celebrity, Kristi Yamaguchi, Lachey returned to Dancing with the Stars in its fifteenth season as one of the All-Stars contestants. This time he was partnered with Anna Trebunskaya and they were the third couple eliminated from the competition. Lachey married Lea Lachey on October 14,2000 and they were childhood and high-school sweethearts, and she was the choreographer for 98 Degrees, as well as one of the dancers. Their first child, daughter Isabella Claire Lachey, was born on March 26,2006 in Los Angeles, California, on December 14,2009, it was announced that the couple was expecting their second child, a boy, due in Spring 2010

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2014 World Series
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The Giants defeated the Royals four games to three to clinch their third World Series championship in a five-season span, and their third overall since the clubs move to San Francisco from New York. It was the Giants eighth World Series championship in franchise history, the Giants won Game 1 behind a strong pitching performance by Madison Bumgarner while the Royals won Games 2 and 3 as their pitchers limited San Francisco to 2 runs per game. The Giants won Games 4 and 5, thanks to 11 runs in Game 4, Kansas City tied the series in Game 6, shutting out San Francisco and scoring 10 runs, which forced a Game 7. The Giants won the game, 3–2, thanks to timely hitting, including the game-winning RBI by Michael Morse to score Pablo Sandoval. Bumgarner pitched five innings in relief on two days rest to clinch the championship, claiming the series MVP award. The World Series was the Giants second trip to Kauffman Stadium in 2014, the Royals had home field advantage in this World Series as a result of the American Leagues 5–3 victory in the 2014 All-Star Game. During that game, the American League took a 3–0 lead in the first inning and this caused several writers to question the integrity of the rule awarding home field advantage in the World Series to the winning league in the All-Star Game. San Francisco won the series, 4–3, both teams sent their respective aces to the mound for Game 1, James Shields for the Royals and Madison Bumgarner for the Giants. The Giants scored the first run in the inning when a Pablo Sandoval double scored Gregor Blanco from second base. The next batter, Hunter Pence, hit a run to center field. The Royals did not threaten until the third inning, Omar Infante reached on an error by Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, and Mike Moustakas hit a double down the line to move Infante to third. Bumgarner struck out both Alcides Escobar and Norichika Aoki, but walked Lorenzo Cain to load the bases, Eric Hosmer grounded out to second base on the first pitch to end the threat. The Giants threatened again in the top of the fourth when Pence doubled, went to third on a wild pitch, Michael Morse then singled to score the fourth run of the game, which knocked Shields out of the game. After allowing a sacrifice bunt to Juan Pérez, Duffy allowed two walks to Crawford and Blanco, bringing the fifth run in for the Giants. He retired the two batters to end the inning. The score remained 5–0 until the top of the seventh, when Blanco drew another walk, Joe Panik hit a ball to right fielder Aoki, which he misplayed, allowing Blanco to score and Panik to reach third. Tim Collins was brought in and allowed a single to Sandoval after Posey lined out, the Royals scored their only run on a Salvador Pérez solo home run with two outs off Bumgarner, which proved to be the only run given up by Bumgarner in the series. That homer also ended Bumgarners consecutive scoreless innings streak in the World Series at 21, Collins and Jason Frasor each pitched scoreless innings for the Royals, while Javier López and Hunter Strickland closed out the game for the Giants with scoreless eighth and ninth innings

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2015 World Series
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The series was played between October 27 and November 1, with the Royals winning the series 4 games to 1. It was the first time since the 2010 World Series that the World Series extended into November, the Royals became the first team since the Oakland Athletics in the 1989 World Series to win the World Series after losing in the previous year. It was also the first World Series since the 2007 World Series to not feature the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, the Royals had home field advantage for the first two games of the series because of the ALs 6–3 victory in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. It was the 13th World Series in which home field advantage was awarded to the league won the All-Star Game. The series was played in a 2–3–2 format, the Royals hosted Games 1 and 2, and the Mets hosted Games 3,4, the Royals won Game 1 in extra innings, tying for the longest game in World Series history. The Royals also won Game 2 with a game by Johnny Cueto. With the series shifting to New York, the Mets won Game 3 with home runs by David Wright, the Royals came from behind to win Game 4 after an error by Daniel Murphy led to a blown save by Jeurys Familia. Game 5 also went into extra innings, where bench player Christian Colón drove in the run for the Royals. Salvador Pérez was named the World Series Most Valuable Player, the Mets made their fifth appearance in the World Series after sweeping the Cubs 4–0 in the 2015 National League Championship Series. The Mets qualified for the postseason by winning the National League East and they faced the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2015 NL Division Series, winning in five games. In the 2015 NLCS, Daniel Murphy led the team by hitting home runs in game of the four-game sweep of the Chicago Cubs. By winning the NLCS, the Mets ensured that they have the most World Series appearances by a franchise with five. In addition, the Mets have made World Series appearances in all but one of their six decades of existence and this was the first World Series appearance for Mets manager Terry Collins. The Royals made their second appearance in the World Series. The Royals qualified for the postseason by winning the American League Central, their division title. They faced the Houston Astros in the 2015 American League Division Series and they followed that up in the 2015 American League Championship Series, beating the Toronto Blue Jays in six games. By winning the ALCS, the Royals became the first team to play in consecutive World Series since the Texas Rangers played in the 2010 World Series and 2011 World Series, the series began on October 27. As the AL won the 2015 All-Star Game, the Royals had home advantage for the series

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Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 19)
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Season nineteen of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 15,2014. On November 25,2014, Alfonso Ribeiro and his partner Witney Carson were crowned champions, the runners-up were Sadie Robertson and Mark Ballas, and Janel Parrish and Valentin Chmerkovskiy came in third. Cheryl Burke, who was featured on every season of the show except the first, twelve professional partners were revealed on August 13,2014, on Good Morning America by returning professionals Cheryl Burke, Tony Dovolani, Karina Smirnoff, and Valentin Chmerkovskiy. Sharna Burgess was announced as the thirteenth pro on August 27,2014, the celebrity partners were revealed on Good Morning America on September 4,2014. Two season-18 pros, Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Henry Byalikov, did not return as pros this season, however, tom Bergeron returned as host alongside Erin Andrews. Len Goodman, Carrie Ann Inaba and Bruno Tonioli all returned as judges, while former professional, ray Chew also returned as bandleader. Leah Remini filled in as co-host on October 20,2014, Henry Byalikov, did not return as a pro this season, but returned to the shows dance troupe. Other members of the troupe are Lindsay Arnold, Sasha Farber and Jenna Johnson, season 16 pro and former troupe member Gleb Savchenko performed with the current troupe members in the season premiere episode. The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges 40-point scale are as follows, unless indicated otherwise, individual judges scores in the charts below are listed in this order from left to right, Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli. Couples performed the cha-cha-cha, foxtrot or jive, running order Couples performed one unlearned dance to some of their favorite songs, jazz, rumba, salsa and samba are introduced. Running order Individual judges scores in the chart below are listed in order from left to right, Carrie Ann Inaba, Kevin Hart, Julianne Hough. Couples performed one unlearned dance to famous songs, Argentine tango, contemporary, paso doble, quickstep, tango. Running order Individual judges scores in the chart below are listed in order from left to right, Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli. Running order Individual judges scores in the chart below are listed in order from left to right, Carrie Ann Inaba, Jessie J, Julianne Hough. Couples performed one dance style new to the season with a different partner selected by the general public, running order Individual judges scores in the chart below are listed in this order from left to right, Carrie Ann Inaba, Pitbull, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli. Couples performed one unlearned dance to guest judge Pitbulls personal and favorite tracks, Couples performed one unlearned dance and a team dance to Halloween themes and songs, Len Goodman returned to the judging panel after a 4-week absence. Running order Couples performed a routine to a dance and song that was chosen by the American public. Inaba, Goodman, Tonioli, and the United States voters gave each dance couple their scores, running order Couples performed two unlearned dances to the same song, with one version being the original track, and the other being an acoustic version

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Alfonso Ribeiro
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Alfonso Lincoln Ribeiro Sr. is an American actor, television director, dancer, and show host. Ribeiro played Alfonso Spears on the sitcom Silver Spoons, and Carlton Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and he currently hosts ABCs Americas Funniest Home Videos, taking over from Tom Bergeron who left after fifteen years. He hosted the GSN game show Catch 21 and the ABC Family show Spell-Mageddon and he also hosted the hit TV show Dance 360, and starred in the title role of the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid. Ribeiro took part in the series of the British reality show Im a Celebrity. Get Me Out of Here. Where he came in place, leaving on day 19. Ribeiro won season nineteen of Dancing with the Stars with professional partner Witney Carson, Ribeiro was born in New York City in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, to Trinidadian parents Michael and Joy Ribeiro. His mother was the daughter of Trinidadian Calypsonian the Roaring Lion, Ribeiro began his career at the age of eight. He first gained recognition in 1983, when he played a role in the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid. He received positive reviews for his performance, and was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, Ribeiro appeared as a dancer in a Pepsi commercial that featured Michael Jackson in 1984. A rumor spread that Ribeiro had died from snapping his neck while dancing for the commercial, the same year, Ribeiro was cast as Rick Schroders best friend on the TV series Silver Spoons. In 1985, Alfonso appeared as himself in a commercial on MTV advertising a dance instruction book he authored called Alfonsos Breakin & Poppin Book, in 1986, he released a 12 rap record called Timebomb on Prism Records. Ribeiros breakout role was as Carlton Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from 1990 to 1996 and he played the cousin to Will Smiths lead character. The Carlton character was known for dancing to Tom Joness Its Not Unusual. Ribeiro competed as one of the celebrity singers on the reality TV show Celebrity Duets in 2006, in 2008, Ribeiro began hosting the game show Catch 21 on GSN. He also directed episodes of Meet the Browns and a majority of the season two episodes of Are We There Yet. television series. In 2013, Ribeiro began hosting his second game show Spell-Mageddon on ABC Family, on May 24,2013, Ribeiro made a cameo appearance on The Graham Norton Show to perform The Carlton Dance, with show guests Will and Jaden Smith. In November of that year, Ribeiro took part as a contestant in the series of the British reality show. He was eliminated from the show on December 5, finishing in seventh place, on September 4,2014, Ribeiro was announced as one of the celebrities who would compete on season 19 of Dancing with the Stars

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Dancing with the Stars (U.S. season 21)
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Season twenty-one of the American television competition series Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 14,2015. On November 24,2015, Bindi Irwin and her partner Derek Hough were crowned champions, Nick Carter and Sharna Burgess finished second, Alek Skarlatos and Lindsay Arnold placed third and Carlos PenaVega and Witney Carson placed fourth. Irwin also set a record with 8 perfect scores and became the second youngest winner of the show at 17 years old and this also marked Houghs sixth competitive win, extending his own record for the most wins for a professional dancer on the series. On August 19,2015, nine professional dancers were revealed during Good Morning America, karina Smirnoff, who did not appear in season 20 returned for season 21. Anna Trebunskaya and Louis van Amstel would be returning after a five-season hiatus, additionally, Lindsay Arnold would also be returning after spending the last four seasons in the troupe. While Peta Murgatroyd was originally announced as a professional, was sidelined for the season by an injury, Artem Chigvintsev. Bindi Irwin was the first celebrity revealed on August 24, on GMA, the full cast of celebrities and professional dancers was revealed on September 2,2015, on GMA. During the show, two celebrities withdrew during the competition, marking the first time two contestants withdrew in midseason, Tom Bergeron and Erin Andrews returned as hosts, while judges Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough, and Bruno Tonioli all returned this season. After twenty seasons, Len Goodman did not return this season as a judge, in a message during the finale. Season 19 champion Alfonso Ribeiro filled in for Tom Bergeron on October 5,2015, when Bergeron went to be with his ailing father Raymond Bergeron, who subsequently died on October 12,2015. Leah Remini filled in as co-host on October 19 and October 26,2015, extra points from the dance-offs are not included. The best and worst performances in each dance according to the judges 30-point scale are as follows, Individual judges scores in the charts below are listed in this order from left to right, Carrie Ann Inaba, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli. The couples danced the cha-cha-cha, foxtrot, jive, quickstep or salsa, Running order Couples had to prepare two new dances to be performed on two consecutive nights. On Monday, the couples performed routines that celebrated the hometowns of the celebrities, on Tuesday, the remaining couples performed routines that celebrated the hometowns of the remaining pro partners, with another couple being eliminated. Charleston, contemporary, jazz, paso doble, rumba, tango, Running order Running order Individual judges scores in the chart below are listed in this order from left to right, Carrie Ann Inaba, Alfonso Ribeiro, Julianne Hough, Bruno Tonioli. Couples performed one unlearned dance to famous TV theme songs, samba, after suffering a mini-stroke, Kim Zolciak-Biermann was able to rehearse, but her doctors refused to clear her for air travel. As a result, she was unable to attend the rehearsal and the live show. Had she not withdrawn from the competition, either Andy & Allison or Paula & Louis would have eliminated that night

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Mel B
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Melanie Janine Brown, better known as Mel B or Melanie B, is an English singer, songwriter, presenter, television personality, dancer, actress, author, and model. Brown rose to fame as a member of the group the Spice Girls. Brown is also known for supporting girl power and earlier global tours, Brown began her solo career when she released I Want You Back with Missy Elliott on Virgin Records. The single charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, followed by the release of her debut album, the album also saw the release of two top 10 singles Tell Me and Feels So Good. State of Mind was Browns second studio album, released in 2005 on the independent label Amber Café, in mid-2012, Brown announced a return to her solo recording career with the release of her third studio album by signing with EMI Music Australia. The scope of the deal with EMI office includes concessions for global partnering with EMI, the first single from the album, For Once in My Life was released in September 2013, becoming Browns first record to be released after eight years. Since 2000, Brown has concentrated on a variety of non-singing projects and she became the presenter of shows such as This Is My Moment, Top of the Pops, Party in the Park and The All Star Animal Awards. In September 2007, she became a contestant on the season of the American dance competition, Dancing with the Stars. She later joined The X Factor UK for its series in 2014. During this time, she became the female co-host for Dancing with the Stars Australia, however, Brown resigned from the show and did not return for the thirteenth season in 2013. In February that year, she signed on to become one of the four judges for the variety talent show Americas Got Talent. On 1 February 2014, she was revealed to be a coach on The Voice Kids in Australia, Melanie Janine Brown was born in Harehills, Leeds, and grew up in the Burley area of the city, the daughter of Andrea and Martin Brown. Her father is from the Caribbean island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Brown studied performing arts at Intake High School, in Leeds, before entering the entertainment industry. For a time, she worked as a dancer in the resort, Blackpool. After seeing an advertisement for an audition in a newspaper, Brown started her career in a band known as Touch. The group left the management team and eventually teamed up with music manager Simon Fuller. In 1994, Brown, along with Mel C, Geri Halliwell, around 400 women, who answered the advertisement, attended auditions at Danceworks Studios in Mayfair, London. Halliwell, Chisholm, Beckham and Brown were originally chosen as the members of the group, the group felt insecure about the lack of a contract and were frustrated by the direction in which Heart Management was going and broke with them

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Gilles Marini
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Gilles Marini /ʒiːl məˈriːni/ is a French-American actor, known for his roles in the film Sex and the City and in the American television shows Brothers & Sisters, Switched at Birth and Devious Maids. He was also the runner-up in season 8 of Dancing with the Stars, Marini was born in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France to a Greek mother and Italian father. It was in Paris where Marini met Fred Goudon, a photographer who introduced him to the world of modeling, after fulfilling his military duties, he went to the United States to learn English while working as a model. He began his career as a model in his early twenties, One of his first jobs was a television commercial for Bud Light beer. He made his debut at the age of 29, in the 2005 horror flick Screech of the Decapitated. His film credits include One and the Other and The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down, on February 8,2009, it was announced that Marini would participate in the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars. His professional partner was Cheryl Burke and he also took part in the fifteenth season of Dancing with the Stars for another chance to win the mirrorball trophy. He danced with season fourteen winner, Peta Murgatroyd and they were the eighth couple eliminated from the competition, alongside Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy. He was introduced as a character on ABCs hit family drama Brothers & Sisters. He played Luc Laurent, the French love interest of Rachel Griffiths character Sarah Walker in what was originally was supposed to be a five episode arc, the series was cancelled in May 2011, after the fifth season ended. He also appears as Bay Kennishs biological father, Angelo Sorrento, on September 18, it was announced that he would become a series regular for the second season. Gilles and his partner, Cheryl Burke came in as the runners-up of the American televised ballroom dancing competition. On May 19,2009, then seventeen-year-old gymnast Shawn Johnson and her partner, Mark Ballas were crowned champions of that season, season average,28.1 Additional score from guest judge, singer, dancer and choreographer Paula Abdul. For that weeks salsa trio challenge, Marini & Murgatroyd chose Chelsie Hightower to dance alongside them, Marini married his wife, Carole, in 1998. They have two children, a son Georges and a daughter, Julianna, official website Gilles Marini at the Internet Movie Database

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Kelly Osbourne
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Kelly Lee Osbourne is a British singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter and fashion designer. She has also appeared on Dancing with the Stars, in which she and she is the voice of Hildy Gloom in the Disney XD animated series The 7D. She is also a judge on both Australias Got Talent and Project Runway Junior, Osbourne was born in Westminster, London. She has a sister, Aimee, and a younger brother. From Ozzys first marriage, she also has two half-siblings, Jessica Hobbs and Louis John Osbourne and she had an unofficially adopted brother, Robert Marcato, whom Sharon and Ozzy took in after Marcatos mother died. Kelly grew up travelling with her father as he went on tour, Osbourne and the rest of her family chose the vicissitudes of public life with the MTV reality show The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005. The series chronicled their day-to-day life, portraying a family in which metal music, profanity. Kelly, the child, emerged as a wickedly funny, brutally honest, pint-size. The series started when she was seventeen, and ended when she was twenty, in 2002, during the second season of The Osbournes, Kelly dated The Used lead singer Bert McCracken. The show was filmed in California, where the family has had their residence for several decades, stiletto Killers was a rock-inspired line of tees, knickers, hoodies and sweatpants designed by Osbourne and Barone, emblazoned with cartoonish designs and punk rock phrases. There was also a more sophisticated couture branch, the SK Collection, stiletto Killers closed in April 2006. Her debut album, Shut Up, was released by Epic Records in 2002 to moderate American sales, the lead single, a cover of Madonnas Papa Dont Preach, debuted with Houston rock band Pure Rubbish at the 2002 MTV Film Awards. The album, which debuted at No.1 on Billboards Heatseekers chart, was met with mixed reviews and, by May 2003. By autumn she was on the Sanctuary label, later recording a duet of Changes with her father, the duet hit No.1 on the UK charts and resulted in a reissue of Shut Up, titled Changes. Changes was one of a few tracks to have fallen down the charts whilst selling more copies than the week it reached number 1. Osbourne was the first artist to top all three of the Billboard charts dance surveys in the week with the Chris Cox Club Remix of One Word. Osbourne made her debut as an actress with a role on 7 October 2004 on the ABC high school teenage drama Life as We Know It. On 2 April 2004, Osbourne entered the Malibu rehab facility Promises after admitting to her family that she was addicted to painkillers

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Emmitt Smith
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Smith grew up in Pensacola, Florida and became the 2nd leading rusher in American high school football history while playing for Escambia High School. Smith then attended the University of Florida, where he set numerous school rushing records over a college career with the Florida Gators. After being named a unanimous All-American in 1989, Smith chose to forgo his senior year of eligibility, the Dallas Cowboys selected Smith in the first round of the 1990 NFL draft. During his long career, he became the NFLs all-time rushing leader, breaking the record formerly held by Walter Payton. Smith is the running back to ever win a Super Bowl championship, the NFL Most Valuable Player award, the NFL rushing crown. He is also one of four running backs to lead the NFL in rushing three or more seasons, joining Steve Van Buren, Jim Brown and Earl Campbell. Smith led the league in rushing and won the Super Bowl in the year three times when to that point it had never been done. Smith is also one of only two non-kickers in NFL history to more than 1,000 career points. Smith was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2010, Smith played thirteen seasons with the Cowboys and two with the Arizona Cardinals. While playing for Dallas, Smith plus quarterback Troy Aikman and wide receiver Michael Irvin were known as The Triplets, Smith was born in Pensacola, Florida, the son of Mary J. Smith and Emmitt James Smith, Jr. He attended Escambia High School in Pensacola, where he played school football. Emmitt rushed for over 100 yards in 45 of the 49 games he started for Escambia, twice, he broke the 2, 000-yard rushing mark in a season. In track & field, Smith competed as a sprinter and was a member of the 4 ×100 m relay squad, for his efforts, Smith was named the USA Today and Parade magazine high school player of the year for 1986. As part of its 100 Years of Florida High School Football awards ceremony, recruiting expert Max Emfinger said of Smith, Emmitt Smith is a lugger, not a runner. He cant get around the corner, when he falls flat on his face, remember where you heard it first. That performance earned him a spot in the lineup the following week in the Gators SEC opener against Alabama at Legion Field. Smith went on to break the 1, 000-yard barrier in the game of his freshman season. He finished the 1987 season with 1,341 yards and was named Southeastern Conference and he also finished ninth in that years Heisman voting

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Paula Abdul
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Paula Julie Abdul is an American singer-songwriter, voice actress, dancer, choreographer, actress and television personality. She began her career as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers at the age of 18 before rising to prominence in the 1980s as a highly sought-after choreographer at the height of the video era. Abdul later scored a string of pop hits in the late 1980s. Her six number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100 tie her with Diana Ross for seventh among the female performers who have topped the chart. She won a Grammy for Best Music Video – Short Form for Opposites Attract, after her initial period of success, Abdul suffered a series of setbacks in her professional and personal life. She saw renewed fame and success as a judge on American Idol in the 2000s. Abdul was born in San Fernando, California, to Jewish parents, Abduls father, Harry Abdul, was born into the Syrian-Jewish community in Aleppo, Syria, was raised in Brazil, and subsequently emigrated to the United States. Her mother, the concert pianist Lorraine M. Rykiss, grew up in one of the two Jewish families in Minnedosa, Manitoba, and has Ashkenazi Jewish ancestors from Ukraine, Abdul holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. She has a sister named Wendy, in 1980, she graduated from Van Nuys High School. An avid dancer, Abdul was inspired towards a business career by Gene Kelly in the classic film Singin in the Rain. Abdul began taking lessons at an early age in ballet, jazz. She attended Van Nuys High School, where she was a cheerleader, at 15, she received a scholarship to a dance camp near Palm Springs, and in 1978 appeared in a low-budget Independent musical film, Junior High School. Abdul studied broadcasting at the California State University, Northridge, during her freshman year, she was selected from a pool of 700 candidates for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball team—the famed Laker Girls. Within a year, she became head choreographer, Abdul was discovered by The Jacksons, after a few of the band members had watched her while attending a Los Angeles Lakers game. She was signed to do the choreography for the video to their single Torture and my only problem was how to tell the Jacksons how to dance, Abdul later recalled. Imagine me telling them what routines to do, I was young, I was scared. Im not quite sure how I got through that, the success of the choreography in the video led to Abduls career of choreographer in music videos. It was also due to the success of the video that Abdul was chosen to be the choreographer for the Jacksons Victory tour, Abdul choreographed videos for several singers throughout the 1980s, including many videos for Janet Jackson during her Control era

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Nick Carter (musician)
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Nickolas Gene Nick Carter is an American singer, songwriter, actor, dancer, record producer, author and video director. He is best known as a member of the pop group the Backstreet Boys and he has made occasional television appearances and starred in his own reality shows, House of Carters and I Nick Carter. He gained fame in the mid 1990s and early 2000s as a teen idol and he is also the older and only brother of singer Aaron Carter. Nickolas Gene Carter was born in Jamestown, New York, where his parents, Jane Elizabeth Schneck and Robert Gene Carter, several years later, the family moved to Ruskin, Florida and managed the Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added to the family. Carters siblings are Bobbie Jean, Leslie, and twins Aaron, Carters father has a daughter, Ginger Carter, from a previous marriage. His father remarried to Ginger R. Elrod in 2004, and had a son, Kaden Brent and he performed in several commercials, such as the Florida State Lottery and The Money Store. He played the role in the fourth grade production of Phantom of the Opera at Miles Elementary School. He also did a video called Reach For The Book. He also made an appearance in the 1990 Johnny Depp film Edward Scissorhands as a child playing on a Slip N Slide, one of his dance teachers, Sandy, placed him in his first group called Nick and the Angels. Between 1989-1993, Carter covered a number of popular songs by other artists, including Breaking Up Is Hard to Do and Uptown Girl. These recordings ended up on a release called Before the Backstreet Boys 1989–1993 by Dynamic Discs. It is revealed that through several auditions, Nick met AJ McLean and Howie Dorough, after a troubled upbringing, he put in a winning performance on the 1992 New Original Amateur Hour at age 12. At 11 years old, Carter also auditioned for Disneys The Mickey Mouse Club and he was not chosen right away to be a part of the Backstreet Boys because his mother Jane wanted him to join The Mickey Mouse Club so that he could stay in school. A week later, he was asked to join the group and was given the choice of either joining The Mickey Mouse Club with a $50,000 contract or this new music group, Nick chose to go with the group instead. The Mickey Mouse Club was cancelled a few years later, after he joined the group, he had his own personal tutor on tour. At only 13 years old, Carter, AJ McLean, Brian Littrell, Howie Dorough, the group has recorded several albums, beginning in the mid-1990s, the latest being 2013s In a World Like This. In March 2016, the announced that they will begin an exclusive headlining residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas called Backstreet Boys. In 2002, when the Backstreet Boys expressed a desire to leave their management company, The Firm

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Cher
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Cher is an American singer and actress. Commonly referred to as the Goddess of Pop, she is described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song I Got You Babe reached number one on the American and she began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 her first million-seller song, Bang Bang. She became a personality in the 1970s with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run. She emerged as a trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows. While working on television, she established herself as a solo artist with the U. S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves, Half-Breed, and Dark Lady. After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, Cher launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco-oriented album Take Me Home and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–82 residency show in Las Vegas. In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in the film adaptation of the same title. She subsequently earned critical acclaim for her performances in such as Silkwood, Mask. She then revived her career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher, Heart of Stone. She reached a new peak in 1998 with the album Believe. It also features the use of Auto-Tune, also known as the Cher effect. Her 2002–2005 Living Proof, The Farewell Tour became one of the concert tours of all time. In 2008, she signed a $180 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years, after seven years of absence, she returned to film in the 2010 musical Burlesque. Chers first studio album in 12 years, Closer to the Truth, Cher has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a special CFDA Fashion Award, among several other honors. Throughout her career, she has sold 100 million records worldwide and she is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each decade from the 1960s to the 2010s. Outside of her music and acting, she is noted for her views, philanthropic endeavors and social activism, including LGBT rights. Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20,1946, Chers father was rarely home when she was an infant, and her parents divorced when Cher was ten months old

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Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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Maksim Maks Aleksandrovich Chmerkovskiy is a Ukrainian-American Latin–ballroom dance champion, choreographer, and instructor. He is widely known as one of the dancers on the American television series Dancing with the Stars. In his 16 seasons as a pro on the show, Chmerkovskiy made it to the final round five times. Then on May 20,2014, Chmerkovskiy, paired with Olympic ice dancer Meryl Davis, Chmerkovskiy has also starred in the Broadway productions of dance shows Burn the Floor and Forever Tango. Chmerkovskiy was born January 17,1980, in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR to parents Aleksandr Sasha Chmerkovskiy and he has a younger brother, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, who is also a professional dancer. His father is Jewish and his mother is Christian, and he has described himself as Jewish and he began dancing at age 4 when Chmerkovskiys parents enrolled him a school of aesthetic education. The aim of the school was to children to become young gentlemen or ladies. He eventually began competing in ten-dance, which includes both ballroom and Latin dances, as a child Chmerkovskiy also participated in tennis, soccer, and swimming. At age 13, he broke his leg in a skiing accident and had a titanium rod put in to stabilize his leg. Doctors foresaw long-term difficulties and little possibility of a career, however. The family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York in 1994, the challenges of immigration for Chmerkovskiy and his family included financial and language barriers. On his second day in the United States, Chmerkovskiy had a new pair of roller blades stolen, moving to the United States also gave Chmerkovskiy the opportunity to rededicate himself to dance. At 15 he began working at a local Russian restaurant, dancing as entertainment, working at the restaurant, Chmerkovskiy decided winning competitions as a dancer would be a way to argue for higher pay. As a dancer, Chmerkovskiy competed as under the level in the International Latin category. Chmerkovskiy said he chose New Jersey because there was a plethora of dance studios that he disliked already established in Brooklyn, the studio relocated a few times until it ended up in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. He said in 2011 of choosing a New Jersey location, I didnt want to open a studio that would become just one of the studios in the area. I wanted to open my studio somewhere where there was nothing like it, Chmerkovskiy also taught Serge Onik, a dancer who appeared on the eleventh season of So You Think You Can Dance in 2014, where Onik was eliminated just outside the top 10. In addition to Rising Stars, Chmerkovskiy owns several social and competitive dance studios under the brand Dance With Me, most are in the New York metropolitan area

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Michael Flatley
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Michael Ryan Flatley is an American dancer, choreographer, and musician. He became internationally known for Irish dance shows Riverdance, Lord of the Dance, Feet of Flames, Flatley is a native of the South Side of Chicago. He is of Irish background, being born to Irish parents Michael and his parents were both Irish-born, but migrated to the US several years before Michaels birth. Michael is the second of five children and he has three sisters, Anne-Marie, Eliza and Thomasina, as well as a brother Patrick. He began dancing lessons at age 11 and at age 17 was the first American to secure a World Irish Dance title at the World Irish Dance Championships, the Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne. He is also an accomplished flautist, having won twice in the All-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil Concert Flute competitions from 1975-1976, in his youth, Flatley also practiced amateur boxing, at age 17 he competed for the Chicago Golden Gloves Championship title. Flatley was taught dance by Dennis Dennehy at the Dennehy School of Irish Dance in Chicago, after graduating from Brother Rice High School, on Chicagos Southwest Side, he opened a dance school, but later closed it down to focus on performing. From 1978 to 1979 he toured with Green Fields of America, in May 1989, Flatley set a Guinness Book world record for tapping speed at 28 taps per second, and subsequently broke his own record in 1998 with 35 taps per second. Later, in the eve of the shows first full-length run in London and he and the producers had been in negotiations. The producers refused his terms, so he refused to perform, Dunne was already employed by the producers for other skits below the feature and finale. The Eurovision Song Contest was produced by Moya Doherty and she is married to co-founder of Riverdance, John McColgan, and she is regarded as one of the richest women in Ireland, with an estimated fortune of £42 million. The finale piece was co-choreographed by dance partner Jean Butler with Michael Flatley, Jean was his partner in a famous video clip. The response was so explosive that it was extended into a show, starring Butler. After Flatley abruptly left the show over creative control disputes in October 1995 and she left the show in 1997, although it continued its success and inspirations. Shortly after the Riverdance split, Flatley created Lord of the Dance and he also put together a dance production called Feet of Flames in 1998. He later went on to another version of that show with around 50% different numbers from the 1998 show. Titled Feet of Flames, The Victory Tour, he toured Europe in 2000 and he formed another group after that, retiring in December 2015. He held a record of the number of taps per second

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Kevin Hart
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Kevin Darnell Hart is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer. The series lasted one season, but he soon landed other roles in movies like Paper Soldiers, Scary Movie 3, Soul Plane, In the Mix. He also released four comedy albums, Seriously Funny in 2010, Laugh at My Pain in 2011, Let Me Explain in 2013. In 2015, Time Magazine named Hart one of the 100 most influential people in the world on the annual Time 100 list and he currently stars as himself in the lead role of Real Husbands of Hollywood. Kevin Hart was born on July 6,1979 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and he was raised by his single mother, Nancy Hart, and has one brother, Robert. His father, Henry Witherspoon, an addict, was in and out of jail throughout most of Kevins childhood. After graduating from school, Hart briefly attended the Community College of Philadelphia. He then moved to Brockton, Massachusetts, and found work as a shoe salesman and he began pursuing a career in stand-up comedy after performing at an amateur night at a club in Philadelphia. Harts first gig was at The Laff House in Philadelphia under the name of Lil Kev and his career suffered a slow start, as he was booed off stage several times, once even having a piece of chicken thrown at him. After those initial unsuccessful shows, Hart began entering comedy competitions throughout Massachusetts and it took time for Hart to develop a unique comedic style. After an early period of attempting to imitate comedians like Chris Tucker, he found his own rhythm by delving into his insecurities, because of what I do, it has to be an open book, he has said. But right now this is a book that is being written, Hart grossed over $15 million from Laugh at My Pain, making it one of the years top-selling comedy tours. Hart also has a game available through iTunes called Little Jumpman and his Facebook page, Twitter account, and YouTube channel are all connected to and accessible through this app. Most overseas fans of Hart discovered him on YouTube, as well and it was announced in October 2013 that ABC will be making a 30-minute pilot based on Harts stand-up act. Hart does not plan to star in the sitcom, but does plan on having a recurring role, on April 9,2015, Hart embarked a comedy world tour titled the What Now. Tour at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, and concluded on August 7,2016 at the Columbus Civic Center in Columbus, Hart came to prominence from his guest appearance in Undeclared. He made his debut in the film Paper Soldiers. Hart then came to prominence from his films such as the Scary Movie franchise, Soul Plane, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Death at a Funeral

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Jessie J
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Jessica Ellen Cornish, known professionally as Jessie J, is an English singer and songwriter. Born and raised in London, she began her career on stage, aged 11 and she studied at the BRIT School before signing with Gut Records and striking a songwriting deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing where she wrote for artists including Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. After signing with Universal Republic, Jessie J came to following the release of her debut single Do It Like a Dude. Her next song Price Tag topped the charts in nineteen countries including the UK and was followed by the release of her debut album Who You Are, which charted at number two in the UK. Domino also resulted in further international success, peaking at number six on the US Billboard Hot 100. In 2012 Jessie J performed at the Queens Diamond Jubilee Concert outside Buckingham Palace in June and her second album Alive reached the top 5 in the UK Albums Chart and also included the top-five hit songs Wild and Its My Party. The release of her third album Sweet Talker was preceded by the single Bang Bang which debuted at one in the UK. The album made the top 5 in the UK and reached number 10 on the US Billboard 200, as of January 2015, Jessie J had sold over 20 million singles and 3 million albums worldwide. Citing various influences, Jessie J is recognized for a musical and performance style that mixes soul vocals with contemporary R&B, pop, electropop. Jessie J has garnered awards and nominations for her music, including the 2011 Critics Choice Brit Award. Jessie J has supported charitable causes, and has appeared on the UK charity telethons BBC Children in Need. She has served as coach and mentor on the television shows The Voice UK, Jessica Ellen Cornish was born in London, to Rose and Stephen Cornish. She was educated at Mayfield High School in the London Borough of Redbridge and she attended Colins Performing Arts School and as an 11-year-old she was cast in Andrew Lloyd Webbers West End production of Whistle Down the Wind. She subsequently joined the National Youth Music Theatre and appeared in their 2002 production of The Late Sleepers, Cornish has two sisters, who are five and seven years older than she is, who were both head girls at school. Unlike her academic sisters, Cornish has stated she was never really good at anything. She said, At school they were like oh, youre a Cornish girl and they kind of expected me to be the same as my sisters. Give me something to draw or an outfit to pick for someone, or hair, make-up, acting, write a song, Im fine with it and she also said she never based her intelligence on her exam results. She also said she was good at singing and it was her thing

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Baz Luhrmann
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His 2008 film Australia is an epic historical romantic drama film starring Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman. His 2013 drama The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1925 novel of the name, stars Leonardo DiCaprio. His mother, Barbara Carmel, was a dance teacher and dress shop owner, and his father, Leonard Luhrmann, ran a petrol station. He was raised in Herons Creek, a rural settlement in northern New South Wales. Luhrmann received the nickname Baz from his father Leonard and he officially changed his given name from Mark to Baz sometime around 1979. In 1983, he commenced a course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art. He graduated in 1985 alongside Sonia Todd, Catherine McClements and Justin Monjo, on 26 January 1997, he married Catherine Martin, a production designer, the couple have two children. Luhrmann supports the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League, Australia The Great Gatsby The modern film interpretation Romeo + Juliet, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes, defeated Titanic at the BAFTAs for best direction, music and screenplay. The film was celebrated at the Berlin Film Festival, where it was recognised with the Gold Bear award for direction, Luhrmann also produced the soundtrack albums for the film. Was named one of the AFIs top ten films of 2001, the film also gave birth to a successful soundtrack album, selling more than seven million copies, led by the Grammy-winning number one hit single Lady Marmalade. Luhrmanns 2008 romantic epic Australia starred Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman and it is the second-highest grossing Australian film of all time, next to Crocodile Dundee and ahead of Happy Feet. In 2016, Luhrmann collaborated with award-winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis on the Netflix series The Get Down about the birth of hip-hop in the 1970s. 1981, A young Luhrmann can be seen in an acting role in the film Winter of Our Dreams. Luhrmann has a part playing opposite Judy Davis. 1992, Luhrmann directed a video for John Paul Youngs Love Is in the Air,1993, Luhrmann staged his interpretation of Benjamin Brittens version of A Midsummer Nights Dream, set in colonial India, for the Australian Opera. After successful seasons in Sydney and Melbourne, the production went on to win the Critics Prize at the Edinburgh Festival, music extracts can be heard on his album Something for Everybody. 1993, Luhrmann assisted in the campaign of former Australian prime minister Paul Keating. 1997, The CD of Something for Everybody was released, featuring music from Luhrmanns films, moreover, Luhrmann created his own company with his wife Catherine Martin, Bazmark

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Ricky Martin
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Enrique Martín Morales, commonly known as Ricky Martin, is a Puerto Rican singer, actor and author. Martin began his career at age twelve with the pop group Menudo. After five years with the group, he released several Spanish-language solo albums throughout the 1990s and he also acted on stage and on TV in Mexico, becoming a modest star in the country. In 1994 he starred on the American TV soap opera General Hospital, since its release, the song has sold over 8 million copies, making it one of the best selling singles of all time. His first English-language album, has sold 22 million copies and is one of the best selling albums of all time. His other studio albums include, Me Amarás, A Medio Vivir, Vuelve, Sound Loaded, Almas del Silencio, Life, Música + Alma + Sexo, and A Quien Quiera Escuchar. Martin was born on December 24,1971, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the son of Nereida Morales, an accountant, and Enrique Martín Negroni and he was the second youngest sibling. Martin has two older maternal half-brothers, Fernando and Ángel Fernández, and two older paternal half-brothers, Eric and Daniel Martín, and a younger paternal half-sister Vanessa Martín. Martin in an interview with Vanity Fair described his origins as Spanish, with Basque and Jewish ancestry from his great-grandparents, Martin grew up in a Roman Catholic home and was an altar boy throughout his childhood. His mothers side of the family was musically inclined and his grandfather was a poet. In a year and a half, he starred in eleven commercials, after achieving a small amount of fame in Puerto Rico for his work in television commercials, Martin auditioned for membership in Puerto Rican boy band Menudo. Although the executives enjoyed his dancing and singing at his first two auditions, Martin was rejected because he was too short, by the third audition, his persistence impressed executives and in 1984, twelve-year-old Martin became a member. The song Asignatura Pendiente from Almas del Silencio was inspired by the first time Martin left Puerto Rico to tour with Menudo. He considered leaving the group while on tour in Brazil, but ultimately decided to out of fear of media backlash. Martin also began struggling with his sexuality, noting the stark contrast between his status as a sex symbol and his own emotions, despite this, Martin acknowledged his opportunity to have so many amazing experiences with so many amazing people during his time with the group. He developed an interest in philanthropy when the group became UNICEF ambassadors and his experiences as an ambassador affected him greatly and inspired him to continue working with charities later in life. By 1987, Menudos record sales began to decline and the changed its image, adopting an edgier look. The band released the album Somos Los Hijos del Rock in Spanish, and to appeal to the Menudos Filipino fanbase, after recording eleven albums with the group, Martin left Menudo in July 1989 at age seventeen, hoping to rest and evaluate his career path

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Idina Menzel
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Idina Kim Menzel is an American actress, singer, and songwriter. Menzel rose to prominence when she originated the role of Maureen Johnson in the Broadway musical Rent and her performance earned her a Tony Award nomination in 1996. She reprised the role in the musicals 2005 film adaptation, in 2003, Menzel originated the role of Elphaba in the Broadway musical Wicked, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. Menzel returned to Broadway as Elizabeth Vaughan in the 2014 musical If/Then, the song reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, making Menzel the first Tony Award-winning actress to reach the top 10. She ultimately won a Grammy award for the films soundtrack and her album Holiday Wishes was released in 2014 and reached number 6 on the Billboard 200 album chart, making it her highest charting album to date. Idina Kim Mentzel was born on May 30,1971 and her birthplace is varyingly reported as either Queens or Syosset. She grew up in Syosset, the daughter of Helene, a therapist, and Stuart Mentzel and she has a younger sister named Cara. Menzels family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Eastern Europe, Idina changed the spelling of her surname to Menzel to better reflect the pronunciation the Mentzel family had adopted in America. She was friends with actor Adam Pascal before they worked together in Rent, in 1995, Menzel auditioned for Rent, which became her first professional theatre job and her Broadway debut. Rent opened off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop on January 26,1996 and her final performance in the musical was on July 1,1997. Production of Hair and appeared on Broadway as Amneris in Aida, Menzel earned a Drama Desk Award nomination for her performance as Kate in the Manhattan Theatre Clubs 2000 off-Broadway production of Andrew Lippas The Wild Party. Her other off-Broadway credits include the run of Rent and The Vagina Monologues. Menzel received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Elphaba, during her penultimate performance of Wicked on January 8,2005, she fell through a trap door and cracked a lower rib. The injury prevented her from performing in her show on January 9. Menzel did, however, make a special appearance at that performance, performed her final song. Menzel was replaced by Elphaba standby Shoshana Bean and she reprised her Tony Award-winning role as Elphaba in the West End production of Wicked when it opened at Londons Apollo Victoria Theatre on September 7,2006. During her run, she was the highest paid performer in the West End at $30,000 per week. Menzel finished her West End run on December 30,2006 and she was succeeded by Elphaba standby Kerry Ellis

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Dance Moms
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Dance Moms is an American reality television series that debuted on Lifetime on July 13,2011. They compete against each other through their children, set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Los Angeles, California, the show is primarily filmed at the Abby Lee Dance Company studios. Dance Moms season 7 premiered in November,2016, the series depicts the doting mothers as rivals of each other on behalf of their own daughters, often arguing with Miller and each other, and sometimes closing ranks against rival teams. Various rival dance teams spur the teams competitiveness, Miller had never used a pyramid in her studio prior to Dance Moms, and when once asked about the it, Miller stated, Ive never done that in my life. That has nothing to do with me, thats the show, they came up with that whole process. Abby Lee Miller is the director of Reign Dance Productions, which houses the Abby Lee Dance Company, of which she is owner, gianna Martello is an instructor for RDP covering all genres of dance, and is also the assistant choreographer for the ALDC Junior Elite Competition team. Martello studied dance under Millers tutelage through Reign Dance Productions, melissa Gisoni is the mother of Maddie Ziegler, a lyrical/tap dancer and Mackenzie Ziegler, acro/jazz dancer and singer. Maddie and Mackenzie studied dance at Millers studio through Reign Dance Productions from the ages of four. They were original cast members of Dance Moms, continuing as ALDC team members through season 6, Christi Lukasiak is the mother of Chloe Lukasiak, a contemporary and lyrical dancer. Chloe began dancing at Millers studio at age two and they were original cast members of the show, but left the show after the Season 4 finale but later on make a guest appearance in season 7. Kelly Hyland is the mother of Brooke Hyland, a dancer and Paige Hyland. Kelly was a dancer at Abbys mothers studio and was an ALDC dancer, Brooke and Paige were original cast members, but a physical altercation between Kelly and Abby occurred in the middle of Season 4, resulting in the Hylands leaving the show. Holly Hatcher-Frazier, is the mother of Nia Frazier, a contemporary, Nia had earlier studied dance at Millers studio through Reign Dance Productions. She was an original cast member of Dance Moms, continuing on the ALDC team/cast through season 6 and she is the only original cast member to still be on the show. Jill Vertes is the mother of Kendall, a contemporary and jazz/lyrical dancer, before joining the ALDC in season 2, Kendall studied dance at Rogers Dance in Pittsburgh and Studio 19 in Cranberry Township, PA. During season 2, Kendall was portrayed as having switched teams for several episodes, besides Nia, she is one of the longest standing team members. Kira Girard is the mother of Kalani Hilliker, a lyrical/ballet dancer, before joining the ALDC in season 4, Kira and Kalani appeared on season 2 of Abbys Ultimate Dance Competition. After several weeks with the ALDC team in season 4, she was made a permanent team member of the ALDC in season 5, Jessalynn Siwa is the mother of JoJo, a jazz/hip-hop and contemporary dancer

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Olivia Newton-John
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Olivia Newton-John, AO, OBE is a British-Australian singer, songwriter and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who has amassed five number-one and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles, eleven of her singles and fourteen of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the worlds best-selling artists of all time and she starred in Grease, which featured one of the most successful soundtracks in Hollywood history. Newton-John has been a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues, since surviving breast cancer in 1992, she has been an advocate for health awareness becoming involved with various charities, health products and fundraising efforts. Her business interests have included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and she is the mother of one daughter, Chloe Rose Lattanzi, with her first husband, actor Matt Lattanzi. Her second husband is John Easterling, Newton-John was born in Cambridge, England, to Irene Helene, the eldest child of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born and Welsh father, Brinley Bryn Newton-John. Her mothers family had left Germany before World War II to avoid the Nazi regime and she is a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. Her maternal great-grandfather was jurist Victor Ehrenberg and her matrilineal great-grandmothers father was jurist Rudolf von Jhering. Newton-John is the youngest of three children, following brother Hugh, a doctor, and sister Rona, an actress who was married to Grease co-star Jeff Conaway from 1980 until their divorce in 1985. Newton-Johns father was an MI5 officer on the Enigma project at Bletchley Park who took Rudolf Hess into custody during the Second World War. In 1954, when she was six, Newton-Johns family emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and she attended Christ Church Grammar School, and then University High School, adjacent to Ormond College. At fourteen, Newton-John formed a short-lived all-girl group, Sol Four and she became a regular on local Australian radio and television shows including HSV-7s The Happy Show where she performed as Lovely Livvy. She also appeared on the Go Show where she met future partner, Pat Carroll. Newton-John was initially reluctant to use the prize she had won, a trip to Britain, Newton-John recorded her first single, Till You Say Youll Be Mine Forever, in Britain for Decca Records in 1966. While in Britain, Newton-John missed her then-boyfriend, Ian Turpie, with whom she had co-starred in the Australian telefilm, Newton-John repeatedly booked trips back to Australia that her mother subsequently cancelled. Newton-Johns outlook changed when Pat Carroll also moved to the UK, the two formed a duo called Pat and Olivia and toured nightclubs in Europe. After Carrolls visa expired forcing her to return to Australia, Newton-John remained in Britain to pursue solo work until 1975 and she became engaged to The Shadows guitarist Bruce Welch, but they never married. Newton-John was recruited for the group Toomorrow formed by American producer Don Kirshner, in 1970, the group starred in a science fiction musical film and recorded an accompanying soundtrack album both named after the group

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Kenny Ortega
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Kenneth John Kenny Ortega is an American producer, director, and choreographer. He is best known for directing Hocus Pocus, the High School Musical trilogy, Descendants, Ortega was born in Palo Alto, California, the son of Madeline, a waitress, and Octavio Tibby Ortega, a factory worker. Both of his parents were born in Palo Alto, though his paternal grandparents were Spanish immigrants. He attended Sequoia High School in Redwood City, California, where he was a cheerleader and he also worked with The Tubes on their stage shows and directed the video for Shes a Beauty. Ortega directed Billy Squiers Rock Me Tonite video, which is cited as the worst music promo clip ever made and has been blamed by Squier for killing his career. Together with Michael Jackson, he created and designed the Dangerous World Tour 1992-1993 and he has also choreographed events ranging from Super Bowl XXX, the 72nd Academy Awards, the 1996 Summer Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics. In addition, Ortega has directed and choreographed High School Musical, High School Musical 2, High School Musical 3, Senior Year, on January 30,2008, Ortega presented director-choreographer Adam Shankman with a Lifetime Achievement Award at The Carnival, Choreographers Ball 9th anniversary show. In May 2009, Ortega began work on the scheduled Michael Jackson 50-date This Is It concerts and he directed the concert film Michael Jacksons This Is It which was put together from rehearsal footage recorded at the Los Angeles Forum and the Staples Center. The film was released on October 28, Ortega directed the Michael Jackson Public Memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, which was broadcast live on several networks on July 7,2009. It reached an audience of 31 million in America, and more than 1 billion worldwide. He was set to direct the 2011 Footloose remake, but dropped out in October 2009, Ortega is now set to direct the upcoming movie adaptation of the Broadway musical In the Heights. On August 9,2011, it was announced that Ortega will direct a remake of Dirty Dancing, on May 12,2014, Ortega guest-judged on the 18th season of Dancing with the Stars during the semifinals. In 2014, Ortega signed with Disney to direct Descendants, a new Disney Channel Original Movie and it was released July 31,2015. Official website Kenny Ortega at the Internet Broadway Database Kenny Ortega at the Internet Movie Database Kenny Orgeta at MVDbase. com

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Donny Osmond
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Donald Clark Donny Osmond is an American singer, actor, radio personality, and former teen idol. Osmond has also been a talk and game show host, record producer, in the mid-1960s, he and four of his elder brothers gained fame as the Osmonds. Osmond went solo in the early 1970s, covering such hits as Go Away Little Girl, for over thirty-five years, he and younger sister Marie have gained fame as Donny & Marie, partly due to the success of their 1976–79 self-titled variety series, which aired on ABC. The duo also did a 1998–2000 talk show and have been headlining in Las Vegas since 2008, in 1989, Osmond had two big-selling recordings, the first of which, Soldier of Love, was initially credited to a mystery artist by some radio stations. Starting in July 1992, Osmond played Joseph in the Elgin Theatres Toronto production of Joseph, the musical then toured North America until 1998. Creator Andrew Lloyd Webber chose him for the 1999 film version, in 2009, Osmond won the ninth season of Dancing with the Stars. Osmond appeared as a guest judge on Strictly Come Dancing on week 3 of the 12th series, Osmond was born on December 9,1957 in Ogden, Utah, the seventh son of Olive May and George Virl Osmond. He is the brother of Alan, Jay, Jimmy, Merrill, Wayne, Marie, Tom, Alan, Jay, Merrill, Wayne, and Donny were members of the popular singing group The Osmonds. Osmond was raised as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah along with his siblings, Osmond has traced some of his family ancestry back to Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, his journey was documented in a BBC Wales program, Donny Osmond Coming Home. On the BBCs The One Show, a plaque was unveiled in the town to commemorate the ancestors of Donny Osmond, in his youth, Osmond held a ham radio license, KA7EVD. Andy Williams father, Jay Emerson Williams, saw the Osmond Brothers perform on a Disneyland televised special as a barbershop quartet, in short order, the group was invited to audition for The Andy Williams Show. In 1963, Donny Osmond made his debut on the show at the age of 5 singing You Are My Sunshine, the brothers continued to perform on the show throughout the 1960s along with a visit from their sister Marie. Osmond became a teen idol in the early 1970s as a solo singer, Osmond, Bobby Sherman, and David Cassidy were the biggest Cover Boy pop stars for Tiger Beat magazine in the early 1970s. His first solo hit was a cover of Roy Orbisons 1958 recording of Sweet and Innocent, in the 1980s, Osmond re-invented himself and abandoned the earlier television show image crafted to appeal to young viewers. They succeeded, returning Osmond to the US charts in 1989 with the Billboard Hot 100 No.2 song Soldier of Love, the campaign to market Soldier Of Love received considerable airplay with the singer being presented as a mystery artist before his identity was later revealed. Launching an extensive tour in support of the Eyes Dont Lie record, he enlisted Earth Wind & Fire and Kenny Loggins guitarist Dick Smith along with keyboardist Marc Jackson. Osmond was often reluctant to perform his earliest songs, in particular Go Away Little Girl, now he embraces his initial recording period with fondness, and recognizes that his many fans around the world are always excited and appreciative to hear his earliest chart successes. Osmond was the guest vocalist on Dweezil Zappas star-studded version of the Bee Gees Stayin Alive which appeared on Zappas 1991 album Confessions, the song also included guitar solos from Zakk Wylde, Steve Lukather, Warren DeMartini, Nuno Bettencourt, and Tim Pierce

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Pitbull (rapper)
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Armando Christian Pérez, known by the stage name Pitbull or Mr. Worldwide, is an American rapper. His first recorded performance was on a solo track from Lil Jons 2002 album Kings of Crunk. In 2004, Pitbull released his debut album M. I. A. M. I and it included production producers Lil Jon and Jim Jonsin. Pitbull later released his second album El Mariel, in 2006 and his third, The Boatlift and his fourth album, Rebelution, included the hit single I Know You Want Me, which peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100. Pitbulls 2011 album Planet Pit, featured the single Give Me Everything and his 2013 track Timber from his Meltdown EP topped the charts in twenty nations, including the US and UK. He performed the song We Are One along with Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte, Armando Christian Perez was born on January 15,1981 to Cuban expatriates in Miami, Florida. When he was 3, he could recite the works of Cubas national hero and poet, José Martí, growing up, he was influenced by the Miami bass genre of pop music and has cited Celia Cruz and Willy Chirino as sources of inspiration for his music. Pérezs parents separated when he was young, and he was raised by his mother, he spent time with a foster family in Roswell. He attended South Miami Senior High School before graduating from Miami Coral Park High School and he said he chose his stage name of Pitbull because the dogs bite to lock. The dog is too stupid to lose, and theyre outlawed in Dade County. Theyre basically everything that I am, after meeting Lil Jon in Miami, Pitbull was featured on Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz album Kings of Crunk in 2002. Pitbulls song Oye was featured on the soundtrack to the film 2 Fast 2 Furious the following year, in addition, Pitbull released several mixtapes, composed of freestyles and remixes of popular rap music. Campbell featured Pitbull in his single, Lollipop, together they focused on creating a more radio-friendly sound. Fernandez later told HitQuarters, At that time his music had a lot of verses and took a time to get into the hook. Fernandez introduced Pitbull to Lil Jon, hoping to secure the rapper a small guest intro spot on Lil Jons upcoming album Kings of Crunk. According to Fernandez, Jon took a liking to Pérez and offered him a track k on the album and this track helped raise the young rappers profile. In 2004, Pitbull released his debut album M. I. A. M. I, with the lead single being Culo produced by Lil Jon and the Diaz Brothers. It peaked at No.32 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, other singles included Dammit Man, Back Up, Toma, and Thats Nasty

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Redfoo
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Stefan Kendal Gordy, better known by his stage name Redfoo, is an American rapper, dancer, record producer, DJ and singer best known as part of the musical duo LMFAO. He formed the duo with his nephew Sky Blu in 2006 and he attended junior high school with will. i. am and GoonRock. Redfoo graduated from Palisades Charter High School in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, in 1994, Redfoo scored his first major production credit for the song Back in the Day by Los Angeles rapper Ahmad and co-produced seven other tracks on Ahmads self-titled debut album. In 1996 he signed with Bubonic Records, and he worked in collaboration with the rapper Dre Kroon for an album together, the album, Balance Beam, was released on October 10,1997. Redfoo and Kroon released two singles, Life Is a Game Of Chess and The Freshest, in 1999 he collaborated on Duet with The Black Eyed Peas, from their album Behind the Front. He also produced Focused Daily for Defari, in 2004 Figgkidd released I Gotta Know as single which featured vocals from Redfoo and Tech N9ne. The song peaked at number 50 in Australia and he formed the electro-pop band LMFAO with his nephew Sky Blu in 2006. The duo started building a local buzz through their shows and radio play. Once they had recorded demos, Redfoos friend will. i. am introduced them to Interscope head Jimmy Iovine. LMFAO released the album, Party Rock on July 7,2009. The album charted at number 33 on the Billboard 200 and number two on the Billboard Dance Chart and their first single was Im in Miami Bitch, which was released in December 2008, and peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 37 in Canada. That same year, LMFAO was featured in The Crystal Methods song Sine Language and it also peaked at number 31 on the U. S. Hot 100 and at number 12 in Canada, the duo then recorded their second album, Sorry for Party Rocking, late in 2010 and released it on June 17,2011 in the U. S. The first single taken from the album, Party Rock Anthem, was released on January 1,2011 and it features British singer Lauren Bennett formerly of the girl pop group Paradiso Girls and producer GoonRock, and showcases the Melbourne Shuffle dance style in its popular video. The song is so far the most successful of their career, peaking at one in the United States, Canada. The second single from Sorry for Party Rocking, Champagne Showers, was released on May 27,2011 and features English singer-songwriter Natalia Kills. The third single, Sexy and I Know It, was released on October 3,2011 and reached number one on the charts worldwide. Also in 2011, LMFAO embarked on the world tour Sorry for Party Rocking Tour and they were also the opening acts for American singer Keshas Get Sleazy Tour